Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Fall of a Titan
Igor Gouzenko
Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile
The Nor’westers
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Thirty and Three
Hugh MacLennan
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
The Metal and the Flower
P.K. Page
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
No award given
Pulitzer Prize – History
A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
The Waking
Theodore Roethke
Caldecott – Picture Book
Madeline’s Rescue
Ludwig Bemelmans
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Knight Crusader
Ronald Welch (aka Ronald Oliver Felton)
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Beat Not the Bones
Charlotte Jay
Newbery Medal – Children’s
