Literary Award Winners 1955
4 winning results across 4 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1955. Years follow each prize’s official award cycle: the NBCC uses the books’ eligibility year, while its ceremony takes place the following year. Author prizes are labelled separately.
Prizes represented: Hugo Award for Best Novel; National Book Award for Fiction; Nobel Prize in Literature; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Joint winners and historical format categories are shown separately. This list reflects available records; it does not imply that every literary prize has been announced or included.
| Year | Book / recipient | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Mark Clifton & Frank Riley | Hugo Award for Best Novel | winnerSource |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | National Book Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1955 | Halldór Laxness Award for the author’s body of work | Nobel Prize in Literature | winnerSource |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |