1956 in Literature - Awards

Awards

  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle
  • Duff Cooper Prize: Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: St John Greer Ervine, George Bernard Shaw
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
  • Nobel Prize for literature: Juan Ramón Jiménez
  • Premio Nadal: José Luis Martín Descalzo, La frontera de Dios
  • Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary for The Roots of Heaven
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Diary of Anne Frank
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems - North & South
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edmund Blunden

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