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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Digby
David Walker
Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

Rebels Ride at Night
John F. Hayes
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Canada, A Story of Challenge
J.M.S. Careless
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Net and the Sword
Douglas LePan
Hugo Awards – Novel

The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803
David J. Mays
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize – History

The Era of Good Feelings
George Dangerfield
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems 1917–1952
Archibald MacLeish
Caldecott – Picture Book

The Biggest Bear
Lynd Ward
Carnegie Medal – Children’s

A Valley Grows Up
Edward Osmond
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Don’t Cry for Me
William Campbell Gault
Newbery Medal – Children’s
