Literary Award Winners 1996
8 winning results across 8 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1996. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Graham Swift | The Booker Prize | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | Hugo Award for Best Novel | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | National Book Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Gina Berriault | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska Award for the author’s body of work | Nobel Prize in Literature | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Richard Ford | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Richard Ford | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1996 | Helen Dunmore | Women's Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |