Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Precipice
Hugh MacLennan
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Halifax, Warden of the North
Thomas H. Raddall
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Rocking Chair and Other Poems
A.M. Klein
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
Margaret Clapp
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener
Pulitzer Prize – History
Across the Wide Missouri
Bernard DeVoto
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
The Age of Anxiety
W. H. Auden
Caldecott – Picture Book
White Snow, Bright Snow
Alvin R. Tresselt
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Sea Change
Richard Armstrong
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
The Fabulous Clipjoint
Fredric Brown
Newbery Medal – Children’s
