Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriel García Márquez (winner)

World Fantasy
Italo Calvino (winner)
L Sprague de Camp
Andre Norton
Jack Vance

John W. Campbell
Alexis A Gilliland (winner)

British Fantasy Society
Cujo by Stephen King (winner)

Carnegie Medal
The Scarecrows by Robert Westall (winner)

Edgar Awards
Peregrine by William Bayer (winner)

Hugo
Downbelow Station by C J Cherryh (winner)
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
Project Pope by Clifford D Simak

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin (winner)

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
Delusion's Master by Tanith Lee
Little, Big by John Crowley (winner)
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
The Sable Moon by Nancy Springer

National Book Award for Fiction
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (winner)

Nebula
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
Radix by A A Attanasio
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley (winner)
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Take Me Back by Richard Bausch

Philip K Dick Award
Aurelia by R A Lafferty
The Prometheus Man by Ray Nelson
Roderick by John Sladek
Software by Rudy Rucker (winner)

Prometheus Award
The Probability Broach by L Neil Smith (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (winner)

Rita Awards
The Day Beyond Destiny by Anna James (winner)
Rendezvous At Grammercy by Constance Ravenlock (winner)
The Sun Dancers by Barbara Faith (winner)
Winner Take All by Brooke Hastings (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald (winner)

Shamus Awards
Hoodwink by Bill Pronzini (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Constance by Lawrence Durrell
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (winner)
Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

Whitbread Prize
Young Shoulders by John Wain (winner)

World Fantasy
Little, Big by John Crowley (winner)
The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell
The Warhound and the World's Pain by Michael Moorcock
The White Hotel by D M Thomas

Hugo
Blue Champagne [short story] by John Varley
Emergence [short story] by David R Palmer
In the Western Tradition by Phyllis Eisenstein
The Saturn Game [short story] by Poul Anderson (winner)
True Names [short story] by Vernor Vinge
With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope by Kate Wilhelm

Nebula
Amnesia by Jack Dann
In the Western Tradition by Phyllis Eisenstein
The Saturn Game [short story] by Poul Anderson (winner)
Swarmer, Skimmer by Gregory Benford
True Names [short story] by Vernor Vinge
The Winter Beach [short story] by Kate Wilhelm

World Fantasy
Ealdwood [short story] by C J Cherryh
The Fire When It Comes [short story] by Parke Godwin (winner)
Mythago Wood [short story] by Robert Holdstock
The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl Edward Wagner

Hugo
The Fire When It Comes [short story] by Parke Godwin
Guardians by George R R Martin
The Quickening by Michael Bishop
The Thermals of August [short story] by Edward Bryant
Unicorn Variations [short story] by Roger Zelazny (winner)

Nebula
The Fire When It Comes [short story] by Parke Godwin
Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr
Mummer Kiss by Michael Swanwick
The Quickening by Michael Bishop (winner)
Sea Changeling by Mildred Downey Broxon
The Thermals of August [short story] by Edward Bryant