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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
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Rosie Alison
Jennifer AlLee
Gigi Amateau
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
Jesse Blackadder
Sara Blædel
Michael Boatman
Dennis Bock
Caroline Bond
Libba Bray
Po Bronson
Rhidian Brook
Dan Brown
Simon Bucher-Jones
Mark Burnell
Jacqueline Carey
Dan Chaon
Grace Chetwin
David Clement-Davies
Michael Collins
Méira Cook
Mark E Cooper
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
Will Ferguson
Paul Finch
Charles Coleman Finlay
Conor Fitzgerald
Aminatta Forna
Katia Fox
Rebecca Gablé
Peter Gadol
Katy Gardner
Sagarika Ghose
Glen David Gold
J F Gonzalez
Jason Goodwin
Helen Grant
Elizabeth Graver
Ellen Guon
Margaret Peterson Haddix
William Hadley
Rawi Hage
Traci Harding
Thomas Harlan
Andrew Harman
Alison Penton Harper
Joanne Harris
Clay Harvey
Humphrey Hawksley
Aleksandar Hemon
Barb Hendee
Johanne Hildebrandt
Harry Hill
Amanda Hodgkinson
James Patrick Hunt
Allegra Huston
Robin Jarvis
Marie-Louise Jensen
Mai Jia
Boris Johnson
Milly Johnson
Wynonna Judd
Ross Kemp
Khaled Khalifa
Caitlín R Kiernan
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Lisa Kleypas
Gisa Klönne
Elizabeth Kostova
Jay Lake
Michael Landon Jr
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
Robert Newman
Brenda Novak
Eric Nylund
Anthony O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill
Tony Park
Kevin Patterson
Patricia Pearson
Nicky Pellegrino
Elliot Perlman
Lisa Preston
Anne Provoost
Morag Prunty
Anthony Quinn
James Reese
Ben Richards
Kat Richardson
Rick Riordan
Cristina Rivera-Garza
Karen Rose
Hans Rosenfeldt
Nan Rossiter
Eva Sallis
Clare Sambrook
Louis Sanders
Ferdinand Von Schirach
Maria Semple
Ben Sherwood
Jarkko Sipila
Sister Souljah
Wendy Corsi Staub
Garth Stein
Robert S Stone
Rebecca Stott
Jonathan Strahan
Charles Stross
Daniel Suarez
Kazuaki Takano
Chad Taylor
Janne Teller
Gareth Thompson
James Thompson
Miriam Toews
Guillermo del Toro
Amor Towles
Adriana Trigiani
Olivier Truc
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Pip Vaughan-Hughes
Yvonne Vera
Lucy Wadham
Tim Waggoner
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

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