All 1950 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Outlander (translation)

Germaine Guèvremont

Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

The Great Adventure

Donalda Dickie

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

The Progressive Party in Canada

W.L. Morton

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Of Time and the Lover

James Wreford Watson

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy

Samuel Flagg Bemis

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Way West

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Pulitzer Prize – History

Art and Life in America

Oliver W. Larkin

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Annie Allen

Gwendolyn Brooks

Caldecott – Picture Book

Song of the Swallows

Leo Politi

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Lark on the Wing

Elfrida Vipont Foulds

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

What a Body

Alan Green

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Door in the Wall

Marguerite de Angeli