Nobel Prize in Literature
Patrick White (winner)

John W. Campbell
Jerry Pournelle (winner)

British Fantasy Society
The Knight of the Swords by Michael Moorcock (winner)

Carnegie Medal
Watership Down by Richard Adams (winner)

Edgar Awards
The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer (winner)

Hugo
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
A Choice of Gods by Clifford D Simak
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (winner)
There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson
When Harlie Was One by David Gerrold

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Beyond Apollo by Barry N Malzberg (winner)
Fugue for a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest
The Listeners by James E Gunn

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Dancer from Atlantis by Poul Anderson
Deryni Checkmate by Katherine Kurtz
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin
Green Phoenix by Thomas Burnett Swann
The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
The Song of Rhiannon by Evangeline Walton (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
Augustus by John Williams (winner)
Chimera by John Barth (winner)

Nebula
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (winner)
The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
What Entropy Means to Me by George Alec Effinger
When Harlie Was One by David Gerrold

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell (winner)

Whitbread Prize
The Chip Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul (winner)

Hugo
The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story] by Gene Wolfe
The Gold at Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl
Hero by Joe Haldeman
The Mercenary [short story] by Jerry Pournelle
The Word for World is Forest [short story] by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)

Nebula
The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story] by Gene Wolfe
The Gold at Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl
A Meeting with Medusa [short story] by Arthur C Clarke (winner)
Son of the Morning [short story] by Phyllis Gotlieb
With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama by Richard A Lupoff
The Word for World is Forest [short story] by Ursula K Le Guin

Hugo
Basilisk by Harlan Ellison
Goat Song by Poul Anderson (winner)
A Kingdom by the Sea by Gardner Dozois
Painwise by James Tiptree Jr
Patron of the Arts [short story] by William Rotsler

Nebula
The Animal Fair by Robert Bloch
Basilisk by Harlan Ellison
The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm
Goat Song by Poul Anderson (winner)
In the Deadlands by David Gerrold
A Kingdom by the Sea by Gardner Dozois
Patron of the Arts [short story] by William Rotsler