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1952 Awards

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1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Children's, Newbery Medal

1952 Newbery Medal – Children’s Winner and Nominees

1952 Newbery Medal - Children's WinnerGinger PyeEleanor Estes...Amazon1952 Newbery Medal - Children's NomineesAmericans Before ColumbusElizabeth BaityAmazonMinn of the MississippiHolling Clancy HollingAmazonThe Apple and the ArrowMary Buff and Conrad BuffAmazonThe DefenderNicholas KalashnikoffAmazonThe Light at Tern RockJulia L. SauerAmazon
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28Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1952 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1952 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Caine MutinyHerman WoukBegins with Willis Keith's assignment to the Caine, chronicles the mismanagement of the ship under Philip Francis Queeg, explains how Steve Maryk relieved Queeg of command, gives an account of Maryk's court-martial, and describes the aftermath of the mutin...Amazon
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1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1952 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1952 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected PoemsMarianne MooreA landmark definitive edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poets The landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good vantage p...Amazon
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25Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerTowards the Last SpikeE.J. PrattThe purpose of The Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt is to introduce Pratts poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratts poems chosen o...Amazon
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1952 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerJohn A. Macdonald, The Young PoliticianDonald G. CreightonJohn A. Macdonalds flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English - Dictionary of Canadian Biography....AmazonThe Incredible CanadianBruce Hutchison...Amazon
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