Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Noel Streatfeild, The Circus Is Coming
- Hawthornden Prize - David Jones for In Parenthesis
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Kate Seredy, The White Stag
- Newdigate prize: Michael Thwaites
- Nobel Prize for literature: Pearl S. Buck
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marya Zaturenska: Cold Morning Sky
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: John Phillips Marquand - The Late George Apley
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