World Fantasy
Joseph Payne Brennan
Avram Davidson
L Sprague de Camp
C L Moore (winner)
Andre Norton
Jack Vance

John W. Campbell
Somtow Sucharitkul (winner)

British Fantasy Society
To Wake the Dead by Ramsey Campbell (winner)

Edgar Awards
Whip Hand by Dick Francis (winner)

Hugo
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
The Snowqueen by Joan D Vinge (winner)
Wizard by John Varley

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (winner)
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
The Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Timescape by Gregory Benford (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Beginning Place by Ursula K Le Guin
The Grey Mane of Morning by Joy Chant
Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
The Wounded Land by Stephen Donaldson

National Book Award for Fiction
Plains Song by Wright Morris (winner)

Nebula
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
The Orphan by Robert Stallman
Timescape by Gregory Benford and Harlan Ellison (winner)

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
How German Is It? by Walter Abish (winner)
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
A Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
The Red Staircase by Gwendoline Butler (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (winner)
Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
The White Hotel by D M Thomas

Whitbread Prize
Silver's City by Maurice Leitch (winner)

World Fantasy
Ariosto by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Firelord by Parke Godwin
The Mist by Stephen King
Shadowland by Peter Straub

Hugo
All the Lies That Are My Life [short story] by Harlan Ellison
The Brave Little Toaster [short story] by Thomas M Disch
Lost Dorsai [short story] by Gordon R Dickson (winner)
Nightflyers [short story] by George R R Martin
One-Wing by George R R Martin and Lisa Tuttle

Nebula
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
The Brave Little Toaster [short story] by Thomas M Disch
Dangerous Games [short story] by Marta Randall
There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me by Avram Davidson
The Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (winner)

Hugo
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
Beatnik Bayou by John Varley
The Cloak and the Staff by Gordon R Dickson (winner)
The Lordly Ones [short story] by Keith Roberts
Savage Planet by Barry B Longyear
The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop

Nebula
Beatnik Bayou by John Varley
The Feast of Saint Janis by Michael Swanwick
Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick
Strata by Edward Bryant
The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop (winner)
The Way Station by Stephen King