All 1947 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Tin Flute (translation) Gabrielle RoyThe Tin Flute (translation) Gabrielle Roy

The Tin Flute (translation)

Gabrielle Roy

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Haida William SclaterHaida William Sclater

Haida

William Sclater

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Poems for People Dorothy LivesayPoems for People Dorothy Livesay

Poems for People

Dorothy Livesay

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The Autobiography of William Allen White William Allen WhiteThe Autobiography of William Allen White William Allen White

The Autobiography of William Allen White

William Allen White

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

All the King's Men Robert Penn WarrenAll the King's Men Robert Penn Warren

All the King’s Men

Robert Penn Warren

Pulitzer Prize – History

Scientists Against Time

James Phinney Baxter III

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Lord Weary’s Castle

Robert Lowell

Caldecott – Picture Book

The Little Island

Golden MacDonald

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Collected Stories for Children

Walter De La Mare

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Horizontal Man

Helen Eustis

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Miss Hickory

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey