Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe
- Eric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill
- Formentor Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Jennifer Dawson, The Ha-Ha
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe
- Lorne Pierce Medal: Robertson Davies
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Nobel Prize for literature - Ivo Andric
- Premio Nadal: Juan Antonio Payno, El curso
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tad Mosel, All the Way Home
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
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