Awards
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mary Norton, The Borrowers
- Frost Medal: Carl Sandburg
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin
- National Book Award: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
- Newdigate prize: Donald Hall
- Nobel Prize for Literature: François Mauriac
- Premio Nadal: María Medio Estrada, Nosotros, los Rivero
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Andrew Young
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