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All 1950 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Outlander (translation) Germaine GuèvremontThe Outlander (translation) Germaine Guèvremont

The Outlander (translation)

Germaine Guèvremont

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

The Great Adventure Donalda DickieThe Great Adventure Donalda Dickie

The Great Adventure

Donalda Dickie

Amazon

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

The Progressive Party in Canada W.L. MortonThe Progressive Party in Canada W.L. Morton

The Progressive Party in Canada

W.L. Morton

Amazon

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Of Time and the Lover James Wreford WatsonOf Time and the Lover James Wreford Watson

Of Time and the Lover

James Wreford Watson

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Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg BemisJohn Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy Samuel Flagg Bemis

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy

Samuel Flagg Bemis

Amazon

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Way West

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Amazon

Pulitzer Prize – History

Art and Life in America

Oliver W. Larkin

Amazon

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Annie Allen

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Caldecott – Picture Book

Song of the Swallows

Leo Politi

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Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Lark on the Wing

Elfrida Vipont Foulds

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Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

What a Body

Alan Green

Amazon

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Door in the Wall

Marguerite de Angeli

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