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1964 Best Novel Awards

Hugo
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Dune by Frank Herbert
Glory Road by Robert Heinlein
Way Station by Clifford D Simak (winner)
Witch World by Andre Norton

1964 Best Short Story Awards

Hugo
Code Three [short story] by Rick Raphael
No Truce with Kings [short story] by Poul Anderson (winner)
A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
Savage Pellucidar [short story] by Edgar Rice Burroughs

1964 Best Book Awards

Carnegie Medal
Time of Trial by Hester Burton (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
The Centaur by John Updike (winner)

1964 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean-Paul Sartre (winner)

Authors born in 1964

Ben Aaronovitch
Leila Aboulela
Jessica Adams
Mari Akasaka
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Rosie Alison
Jennifer AlLee
Manette Ansay
Jakob Arjouni
Philip Athans
Sefi Atta
David Baddiel
Alan K Baker
Ashok K Banker
Maya Banks
Raffaella Barker
Kerry Barnes
Mark Barrowcliffe
Richard Beasley
Glenn Beck
Pinckney Benedict
C L Bevill
John Birmingham
Kat Black
Sara Blædel
Michael Boatman
Dennis Bock
Oscar Van Den Boogaard
Libba Bray
Po Bronson
Rhidian Brook
Dan Brown
Nicole Lobry de Bruyn
Simon Bucher-Jones
Mark Burnell
Jacqueline Carey
Dan Chaon
Grace Chetwin
Éric Chevillard
David Clement-Davies
Velibor Čolić
Michael Collins
Suzanne Collins
Méira Cook
Mark E Cooper
Peter James Cottrell
S V Dáte
Kate DiCamillo
Kevin Dilmore
José Rodrigues Dos Santos
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Jenny Downham
Andy Duncan
Clare B Dunkle
Julia Ecklar
Simon Edge
Barry Eisler
Bret Easton Ellis
Suzanne Enoch
Nigel Farndale
Harry Farthing
Jane Feaver
Bi Feiyu
Will Ferguson
Charles Coleman Finlay
Conor Fitzgerald
Aminatta Forna
Andrew Fox
Katia Fox
Alberto Fuguet
Peter Gadol
Sagarika Ghose
Glen David Gold
J F Gonzalez
Jason Goodwin
Helen Grant
Elizabeth Graver
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Ellen Guon
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rawi Hage
Tony Hanania
Traci Harding
Thomas Harlan
Andrew Harman
Alison Penton Harper
Anne Harris
Joanne Harris
Clay Harvey
Humphrey Hawksley
Yael Hedaya
Aleksandar Hemon
Barb Hendee
Thomas Hettche
Johanne Hildebrandt
Harry Hill
Amanda Hodgkinson
James Patrick Hunt
Bem Le Hunte
Allegra Huston
Eloisa James
Robin Jarvis
Marie-Louise Jensen
Boris Johnson
Milly Johnson
Wynonna Judd
Barbara Keaton
Mark Kelly
Ross Kemp
Khaled Khalifa
Caitlín R Kiernan
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Lisa Kleypas
Elizabeth Kostova
Helmut Krausser
Jay Lake
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Leena Lehtolainen
Patrick Lennon
Jonathan Lethem
Douglas Lindsay
Lesley Lokko
Katie MacAlister
Emma McLaughlin
Alison MacLeod
Robert McLiam Wilson
Lena Manta
Michael Marano
Sujata Massey
James Maxey
Yves Meynard
Harland Miller
Terry Mixon
J R Moehringer
Karen Marie Moning
Lisa Moore
Sean A Moore
Helen Moss
Kristine Næss
Robert Newman
Brenda Novak
Eric Nylund
Anthony O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill
Tony Park
Kevin Patterson
Nicky Pellegrino
Elliot Perlman
P R Prendergast
John Pritchard
Anne Provoost
Morag Prunty
Anthony Quinn
Jorge Franco Ramos
James Reese
Holiday Reinhorn
Ben Richards
Rick Riordan
Karen Rose
Nan Rossiter
Randy Russell
Eva Sallis
Clare Sambrook
Louis Sanders
Ferdinand Von Schirach
Maria Semple
Ben Sherwood
Carla Sinclair
Jarkko Sipila
Yeardley Smith
Sister Souljah
Wendy Corsi Staub
Garth Stein
Darcey Steinke
Robert S Stone
Rebecca Stott
Jonathan Strahan
Charles Stross
Daniel Suarez
Kazuaki Takano
Chad Taylor
Janne Teller
Gareth Thompson
James Thompson
Ines Thorn
Miriam Toews
Guillermo del Toro
Amor Towles
Adriana Trigiani
Olivier Truc
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Pip Vaughan-Hughes
Yvonne Vera
Eugene Vodolazkin
Lucy Wadham
Tim Waggoner
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Ayelet Waldman
Tricia Walker
Jo Walton
Rachel Ward
Alan Warner
Paul Watkins
Elizabeth Wein
Jane Welch
Martha Wells
Tony White
Laura Wilson
Sarah Winman
Banana Yoshimoto
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Chi Zijian
Nell Zink

Authors who died in 1964