1979 Book Award Winners Home › 1979 The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan 1979NBCCFiction AmazonBookshop The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 1979NBCCCriticism AmazonBookshop Munich: The Price of Peace by Telford Taylor 1979NBCCNonfiction AmazonBookshop Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere by Philip Levine 1979NBCCPoetry Tulku by Peter Dickinson 1979CostaChildren's AmazonBookshop The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston 1979CostaNovel AmazonBookshop About Time by Penelope Mortimer 1979CostaBiography AmazonBookshop The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 1979NBAYoung People's AmazonBookshop Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill 1979NBAPoetry AmazonBookshop Gloriana by Michael Moorcock 1979World FantasyNovel AmazonBookshop "Naples" by Avram Davidson 1979World FantasyShort Fiction Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald 1979BookerFiction AmazonBookshop The Persistence of Vision by John Varley 1979HugoNovella AmazonBookshop Hunter’s Moon by Poul Anderson 1979HugoNovelette Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre 1979HugoNovel AmazonBookshop Cassandra by C. J. Cherryh 1979HugoShort Story The Persistence of Vision by John Varley 1979LocusNovella AmazonBookshop Not awarded 1979LocusFantasy The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 1979PulitzerFiction AmazonBookshop The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher 1979PulitzerHistory AmazonBookshop On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson 1979PulitzerNonfiction AmazonBookshop Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren 1979PulitzerPoetry AmazonBookshop Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker 1979PulitzerBiography Amazon Buried Child by Sam Shepard 1979PulitzerDrama AmazonBookshop Deceit and Deadly Lies by Frank Bandy 1979EdgarPaperback AmazonBookshop giANTS by Edward Bryant 1979NebulaShort Story Amazon The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke 1979NebulaNovel AmazonBookshop Sandkings by George R.R. Martin 1979NebulaNovelette AmazonBookshop Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear 1979NebulaNovella AmazonBookshop Hasen by Reuben Bercovitch 1979PEN/HemingwayDebut Novel AmazonBookshop The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 1979NewberyChildren's AmazonBookshop The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble 1979CaldecottPicture Books AmazonBookshop ← 1978 · 1980 →