Nobel Prize in Literature
Isaac Bashevis Singer (winner)

World Fantasy
Jorge Luis Borges
John Collier
Roald Dahl
Frank Belknap Long (winner)
Richard Matheson
Manly Wade Wellman

John W. Campbell
Orson Scott Card (winner)

British Fantasy Society
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony (winner)

Carnegie Medal
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp (winner)

Edgar Awards
Catch Me: Kill Me by William H Hallahan (winner)

Hugo
Dying of the Light by George R R Martin
The Forbidden Tower by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (winner)
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Time Storm by Gordon R Dickson

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Plumb by Maurice Gee (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (winner)
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

National Book Award for Fiction
Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (winner)

Nebula
Cirque by Terry Carr
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (winner)
In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (winner)

Whitbread Prize
Picture Palace by Paul Theroux (winner)

World Fantasy
The Hour of the Oxrun Dead by Charles L Grant
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (winner)

Hugo
Aztecs by Vonda N McIntyre
In the Hall of the Martian Kings [short story] by John Varley
A Snark in the Night by Gregory Benford
Stardance [short story] by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (winner)
The Wonderful Secret by Keith Laumer

Nebula
Aztecs by Vonda N McIntyre
Stardance [short story] by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (winner)

Hugo
Ender's Game [short story] by Orson Scott Card
Eyes of Amber [short story] by Joan D Vinge (winner)
The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig Van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs by Carter Scholz
Prismatica by Samuel R Delany
The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon

Nebula
The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig Van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs by Carter Scholz
Particle Theory [short story] by Edward Bryant
A Rite of Spring by Fritz Leiber
The Stone City by George R R Martin