Literary Award Winners 1986
7 winning results across 7 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1986. 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; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; 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.
| Year | Book / recipient | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Booker Prize | winnerSource |
| 1986 | Orson Scott Card | Hugo Award for Best Novel | winnerSource |
| 1986 | E. L. Doctorow | National Book Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1986 | Reynolds Price | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka Award for the author’s body of work | Nobel Prize in Literature | winnerSource |
| 1986 | Peter Taylor | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1986 | Larry McMurtry | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |