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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Execution
Colin McDougall
Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile
Nkwala
Edith L. Sharp
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Klondike
Pierre Berton
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry
A Suit of Nettles
James Reaney
Hugo Awards – Novel
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography
George Washington, Volumes I-VII
Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Pulitzer Prize – History
Banks and Politics in America
Bray Hammond
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry
Promises: Poems 1954-1956
Robert Penn Warren
Caldecott – Picture Book
Time of Wonder
Robert McCloskey
Carnegie Medal – Children’s
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel
Knock and Wait a While
William Rawle Weeks
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel
Room to Swing
Ed Lacy
Newbery Medal – Children’s
