All 1970 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The New Ancestors Dave GodfreyThe New Ancestors Dave Godfrey

The New Ancestors

Dave Godfrey

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

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The True Eventual Story of Billy The Kid

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Hugo Awards – Novel

The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Bird of Paradise Lily PowellThe Bird of Paradise Lily Powell

The Bird of Paradise

Lily Powell

Nebula – Novel

The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Huey Long

Thomas Harry Williams

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Gandhi’s Truth

Erik H. Erikson

Pulitzer Prize – History

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Dean Acheson

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Untitled Subjects

Richard Howard

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

The Intruder

John Rowe Townsend

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Hi, Cat!

Ezra Jack Keats

Caldecott – Picture Book

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

William Steig

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The God Beneath the Sea

Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen

Coretta Scott King – Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace

Lillie Patterson

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

A Time for Predators

Joe Gores

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Danger at Black Dyke

Winifred Finlay

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Forfeit

Dick Francis

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

The Dragon’s Eye

Scott C.S. Stone

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Mr Gumpy’s Outing

John Burningham

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Sounder

William Howard Armstrong