Literary Award Winners 1961
4 winning results across 4 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1961. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | Hugo Award for Best Novel | winnerSource |
| 1961 | Conrad Richter | National Book Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1961 | Ivo Andrić Award for the author’s body of work | Nobel Prize in Literature | winnerSource |
| 1961 | Harper Lee | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | winnerSource |