United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Peter Taylor
- Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems
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