All 1955 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Sixth of June Lionel ShapiroThe Sixth of June Lionel Shapiro

The Sixth of June

Lionel Shapiro

Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

The Map-Maker Kerry WoodThe Map-Maker Kerry Wood

The Map-Maker

Kerry Wood

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain Donald G. CreightonJohn A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain Donald G. Creighton

John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain

Donald G. Creighton

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Friday's Child Wilfred WatsonFriday's Child Wilfred Watson

Friday’s Child

Wilfred Watson

Hugo Awards – Novel

They'd Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine) Mark Clifton & Frank RileyThey'd Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine) Mark Clifton & Frank Riley

They’d Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine)

Mark Clifton & Frank Riley

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The Taft Story

William S. White

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Fable

William Faulkner

Pulitzer Prize – History

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History

Paul Horgan

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

Caldecott – Picture Book

Cinderella

Marcia Brown

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Little Bookroom

Eleanor Farjeon

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Go, Lovely Rose

Jean Potts

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Wheel on the School

Meindert De Jong