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All 1954 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Fall of a Titan

Igor Gouzenko

Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

The Nor’westers

Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Thirty and Three

Hugh MacLennan

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Metal and the Flower

P.K. Page

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles A. Lindbergh

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

Pulitzer Prize – History

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Waking

Theodore Roethke

Caldecott – Picture Book

Madeline’s Rescue

Ludwig Bemelmans

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Knight Crusader

Ronald Welch (aka Ronald Oliver Felton)

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

A Kiss Before Dying

Ira Levin

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Beat Not the Bones

Charlotte Jay

Newbery Medal – Children’s

And Now Miguel

Joseph Krumgold