Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Harnett, The Wool-Pack
- Frost Medal: Wallace Stevens
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Chapman Mortimer, Father Goose
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen
- Newbery Medal: Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Pär Lagerkvist
- Premio Nadal: Luis Romero, La noria
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Conrad Richter, The Town
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems
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