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Nobel Prize in Literature
Ivo Andric (winner)

Carnegie Medal
The Making of Man by Dr I W Cornwall (winner)

Hugo
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller (winner)
Deathworld by Harry Harrison
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon

National Book Award for Fiction
The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (winner)

Hugo
The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson (winner)
The Lost Kafoozalum by Pauline Ashwell
My Sister's Brother by Philip José Farmer
Need by Theodore Sturgeon