1958 in Literature - Awards

Awards

  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden
  • Hugo Award for Best Novel: Fritz Leiber, The Big Time
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney
  • Miles Franklin Award: Randolph Stow, To the Islands
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
  • Newdigate prize: Jon Stallworthy
  • Nobel Prize for literature: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
  • Premio Nadal: J. Vidal Cadellans, No era de los nuestros
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Agee, A Death In The Family
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems 1954-1956

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