All 1952 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Pillar

David Walker

Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

Cargoes on the Great Lakes

Marie McPhedran

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician

Donald G. Creighton

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Towards the Last Spike

E.J. Pratt

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Charles Evans Hughes

Merlo J. Pusey

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Uprooted

Oscar Handlin

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems

Marianne Moore

Caldecott – Picture Book

Finders Keepers

Will Lipkind and Mordvinoff Nicolas

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Borrowers

Mary Norton

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Strangle Hold

Mary McMullen

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Ginger Pye

Eleanor Estes