Winners

What Shaped 1982

Keneally's Booker caused a lasting argument because the book is closely reported fact presented as a novel, and judges had to decide what fiction is. Steven Spielberg filmed it a decade later as Schindler's List. García Márquez won for a body of work centred on One Hundred Years of Solitude and brought Latin American writing a global readership it has never lost. Plath's posthumous Pulitzer arrived for a Collected Poems assembled by the husband she had left.

Published in 1982, Won Nothing

Prize committees miss books every year. These came out in 1982 and took no major award.

  • No major prize
    Different Seasons by Stephen King

    King collects four novellas, each attached to a season, that step away from the ghosts and monsters of his earlier books toward more grounded,...

  • No major prize
    The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

    Allende follows the Trueba family across four generations in an unnamed South American country closely modeled on her native Chile. Clara del...

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