1953 in Literature - Awards

Awards

  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
  • Christopher Award: Marie Killilea, Karen
  • Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama: Douglas LePan, The Net and the Sword
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Carola Oman, Sir John Moore
  • National Book Award for Fiction: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ann Nolan Clark, Secret of the Andes
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
  • Premio Nadal: Luisa Forrellad, Siempre en capilla
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: William Inge, Picnic
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems 1917-1952
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Arthur Waley

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