All 1961 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place Malcolm LowryHear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place Malcolm Lowry

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place

Malcolm Lowry

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

The Ascent of Life T.A. GoudgeThe Ascent of Life T.A. Goudge

The Ascent of Life

T.A. Goudge

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Acis in Oxford Robert FinchAcis in Oxford Robert Finch

Acis in Oxford

Robert Finch

Hugo Awards – Novel

A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr.A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David DonaldCharles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David Donald

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

David Donald

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Pulitzer Prize – History

Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference

Herbert Feis

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades

Phyllis McGinley

Caldecott – Picture Book

Baboushka and the Three Kings

Ruth Robbins

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

A Stranger at Green Knowe

Lucy M Boston

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Man in the Cage

John Holbrooke Vance

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Mystery of the Haunted Pool

Phyllis A. Whitney

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Progress of a Crime

Julian Symons

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Mrs Cockle’s Cat

Antony Maitland

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell