World Literary Awards

1986-06-01 Oxford Univ Pr

Wolf

Gillian Cross

Thirteen-year-old Cassy lives with her grandmother until a mysterious late-night visitor sends her to stay with her free-spirited mother Goldie in a London squat. As she helps produce an educational wolf play with the resident troupe of actors, Cassy cannot shake the feeling that something is stalking her. Little Red Riding Hood haunts her dreams recast through her own fears. Eventually she learns the secret that has been kept from her all her life: her father is a notorious IRA terrorist. Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal, this gripping thriller interweaves wolf symbolism with themes of fractured family, identity, and the search for truth.

Carnegie Medal for Writing

1986-05-10 講談社

二十一の気球 (講談社 青い鳥文庫)

ウィリアム=ペン=デュボア, 竹山 のぼる, 渡辺 茂男

Professor Sherman, after retiring, sets out alone across the Pacific and instead drifts to Krakatoa, where he discovers a secret society of great wealth and a world of wildly imaginative inventions.

Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)

1986-05-06 Viking Books for Young Readers

The Golden Goblet (Newbery Library, Puffin)

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Against the backdrop of ancient Egyptian goldsmithing, Ranofer tries to uncover a hidden crime and shape his own future. The novel combines the appeal of a mystery with a moving story of growth under hardship.

Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)

1986-05-06 Puffin Books

The Good Master (Puffin Newbery Library)

Kate Seredy

Set in the Hungarian countryside, the novel follows a lively girl named Kate as she lives with her uncle’s family and slowly learns the rhythms of rural life. It is a warm coming-of-age story shaped by the author’s own childhood impressions.

Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)

1986-05-01 早川書房

神々自身 (ハヤカワ文庫 SF 665)

アイザック アシモフ, 小尾 芙佐

A three-part novel in which energy exchange with a parallel universe governed by different physical laws brings humanity prosperity while also creating a major crisis. It is a rational, science-driven meditation on ethics and the survival of civilization.

Hugo Award

1986-05-01 William Morrow & Co

Spirit of Survival

Gail Sheehy

A survival narrative centered on the Cambodian boy Mohm and his family.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

1986-04-01 評論社

ノアのはこ船 (評論社の児童図書館・絵本の部屋)

ピーター スピアー, 松川 真弓

A picture book retelling the biblical story of Noah's Ark through detailed and expansive illustrations. The visuals give the flood narrative a calm but monumental presence.

Randolph Caldecott Medal

1986-04-01 Penguin Books

Adam's Breed (Virago Modern Classics)

Radclyffe Hall

A novel centered on loneliness and inner conflict. It shows how war and social change shape an individual’s way of life.

James Tait Black Memorial Prizes

1986-03-13 Chivers Press

Accidental Crimes (New Portway Large Print Books)

John Hutton

A psychological crime novel in which a small lie draws in an investigation and unravels the protagonist's life, foregrounding self-deception more than the crime itself.

CWA KAA Gold Dagger

1986-03-06 Everyman Ltd

Fontamara (Everyman Fiction)

Ignazio Silone, E. Mosbacher

Set in an impoverished Italian village under Fascism, the novel follows people trying to survive poverty, coercion, and political intimidation. It is one of Ignazio Silone's best-known anti-fascist novels.

Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society

1986-03-04 Penguin Books

Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Leslie Marmon Silko

A novel centered on Tayo, a returning World War II veteran, that interweaves Native tradition with a fragmented modern world to explore healing and renewal, with cultural memory and ceremony at its core.

American Book Awards

1986-03-04 Penguin Publishing Group

Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

A novel that follows a woman seeking freedom between the glamour and unease of the circus.

James Tait Black Memorial Prizes