Literary Award Winners 1979

6 winning results across 6 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1979. Years follow each prize’s official award cycle: the NBCC uses the books’ eligibility year, while its ceremony takes place the following year. Author prizes are labelled separately.

Prizes represented: The Booker Prize; Hugo Award for Best Novel; National Book Award for Fiction; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Nobel Prize in Literature; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Joint winners and historical format categories are shown separately. This list reflects available records; it does not imply that every literary prize has been announced or included.