Literary Award Winners 1997
8 winning results across 8 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1997. 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; Women's 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The Booker Prize | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Hugo Award for Best Novel | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Charles Frazier | National Book Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Penelope Fitzgerald | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Dario Fo Award for the author’s body of work | Nobel Prize in Literature | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Gina Berriault | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Steven Millhauser | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1997 | Anne Michaels | Women's Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |