| Nobel Prize for Literature |
Pulitzer Prize for American Fiction |
Miles Franklin Award for Australian Fiction |
Hugo Award for Science Fiction |
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| 1949 | William Faulkner | "Guard of Honor" James Gould Couzens |
first awarded 1957 | first awarded 1953 |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | "The Way West:" A B Guthrie Jr |
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| 1951 | Par Fabian Lagerkvist | "The Town" Conrad Richter |
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| 1952 | Francis Mauriac | "The Caine Mutiny" Herman Wouk  |
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| 1953 | Winston Churchill | "The Old Man & the Sea" Ernest Hemmingway |
"The Demolished Man" Alfred Bester |
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| 1954 | Ernest Hemmingway | no award | no award | |
| 1955 | Halldor Kiljan Laxness | "A Fable:" William Faulkner |
"They'd Rather Be Right" Mark Clifton |
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| 1956 | Juan Ramon Jimenez | "Andersonville": MacKinley Kantor |
"Double Star" Robert Heinlein |
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| 1957 | Albert Camus | no award | "Voss" Patrick White |
no award |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak | "A Death in the Family" James Agee |
"To the Islands" Randolph Stow |
"The Big Time" Fritz Leiber |
| 1959 | Salvatore Quasimodo | "The Travels of Jamie" Robert Lewis Taylor |
"The Big Fellow" Vance Palmer |
"A Case of Conscience" James Blish |
| 1960 | Saint-John Perse | "Advise & Consent:" Allen Drury |
"The Irishman" Elizabeth O'Connor |
"Starship Troopers" Robert Heinlein |
| 1961 | Ivo Andric | "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee |
"Riders in the Chariot" Patrick White |
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" Walter M Miller |
| 1962 | John Steinbeck | "The Edge of Sadness" Edwin O'Connor |
"The Well Dressed Explorer" Thea Astley |
"Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert Heinlein |
| 1963 | Giorgos Seferiadis | "The Reivers" William Faulkner |
"Careful, He Might Hear You" Sumner Locke Elliott |
"The Man in the High Castle" Phillip K Dick |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Satre | no award | "My Brother Jack" George Johnston |
"Way Station" Clifford D Simak |
| 1965 | Michail Sholokov | "The Keepers of the House" Shirley Anne Grau |
"The Slow Natives" Thea Astley |
"The Wanderer" Fritz Leiber |
| 1966 | Shmual Y Agnon & Nelly Sachs |
"Collected Stories" Katherine Anne Porter |
"Trap" Peter Mathews |
"And Call Me Conrad" Roger Zelazny |
| 1967 | Miguel A. Asturias | "The Fixer" Bernard Malamud |
"Bring Larks & Heroes" Thomas Keneally |
"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" Robert Heinlein |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | "The Eighth Day" Thornton Wilder |
"Three Cheers for the Paraclete" Thomas Keneally |
"Lord of Light" Roger Zelazny |
| 1969 | Samuel Beckett | "Steps" Jerry Kozinski |
"Clean Straw for Nothing" George Johnston |
"Stand on Zanzibar" John Brunner |
| 1970 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | "Them" Joyce Carol Oates |
"A Horse of Air" Dal Stivens |
"The Left Hand of Darkness" Ursula Le Guinn |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | "Mr Sammler's Planet" Saul Bellow |
"The Unknown Industrial Prisoner" David Ireland |
"Ringworld" Larry Niven |
| 1972 | Heinrich Boell | "The Complete Stories" Flannery O'Connor |
"The Acolyte" Thea Astley |
"To Your Scattered Bodies Go" Philip Jose Farmer |