1981

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  The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

  1981NBCCNonfiction
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  Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

  1981NBCCFiction
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  A Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson

  1981NBCCCriticism
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  A Coast of Trees by A.R. Ammons

  1981NBCCPoetry
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  The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

  1981CostaChildren's
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  Silver's City by Maurice Leitch

  1981CostaNovel
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  Monty: The Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton

  1981CostaBiography
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  A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

  1981CostaFirst Novel
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  The Need to Hold Still: Poems by Lisel Mueller

  1981NBAPoetry
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  The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

  1981World FantasyNovel
• "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop

  1981World FantasyShort Fiction
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

  1981BookerFiction
• Works of Elias Canetti by Elias Canetti

  1981NobelLiterature
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  The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

  1981HugoNovel
• The Cloak and the Staff by Gordon R. Dickson

  1981HugoNovelette
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  Lost Dorsai by Gordon R. Dickson

  1981HugoNovella
• Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak

  1981HugoShort Story
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  The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

  1981LocusSF Novel
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  Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg

  1981LocusFantasy
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  Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

  1981LocusFirst Novel
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  The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler

  1981PulitzerPoetry
• Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

  1981PulitzerBiography
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  Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske

  1981PulitzerNonfiction
• Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

  1981PulitzerDrama
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  American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin

  1981PulitzerHistory
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  A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

  1981PulitzerFiction
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  How German Is It by Walter Abish

  1981PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson

  1981NebulaNovella
• The Quickening by Michael Bishop

  1981NebulaNovelette
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  The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

  1981NebulaNovel
• The Bone Flute* by Lisa Tuttle

  1981NebulaShort Story
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  Household Words by Joan Silber

  1981PEN/HemingwayDebut Novel
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  Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

  1981NewberyChildren's
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  Fables by Arnold Lobel

  1981CaldecottPicture Books

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