Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism: E.B. White
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Ian Wolfram Cornwall, The Making of Man
- Eric Gregory Award: Christopher Levenson
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Canon Adam Fox, The Life of Dean Inge
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
- Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
- Premio Nadal: Ramiro Pinilla, Ciegas hormigas
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury – Advise and Consent
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Betjeman
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