All 1965 Book Awards

Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

In Defence of Canada

James Eayrs

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Cariboo Horses

Al Purdy

Hugo Awards – Novel

The Wanderer

Fritz Leiber

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Henry Adams, 3 vols.,

Ernest Samuels

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Ann Grau

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

O Strange New World

Howard Mumford Jones

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Greenback Era

Irwin Unger

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

77 Dream Songs

John Berryman

Caldecott – Picture Book

May I Bring a Friend?

Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Grange at High Force

Philip Turner

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

Harry Kemelman

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Mystery of 22 East

Leon Ware

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carre

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

The Three Poor Tailors

Victor Ambrus

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Shadow of a Bull

Maia Wojciechowska