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This is a list of literary awards from around the world:
Worldwide in scope
- Nobel Prize in Literature - since 1901
- Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature - since 1956
- Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award for poets and translators - since 1997
- Jerusalem Prize - since 1963
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature - since 1970
- The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year - since 1978
- Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service - since 1979
- Premio Príncipe de Asturias - since 1981
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - since 1996
- Franz Kafka Prize - since 2001
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's and youth literature - since 2003
- Golden Book Awards for fiction literature - since 2010
International awards of limited scope
British Commonwealth and Ireland
- Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Irish Book Awards
English language
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for English-language women playwrights
- Lionel Gelber Prize for English-language works that advance debate on significant global issues.
- The Rossica Translation Prize awarded biennially for the best new published English translation of a high quality Russian literary work
- Warwick Prize for Writing international cross-disciplinary prize awarded biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that will change with every award
- Truman Capote Award for literary criticism in the English language, administered for the Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Portuguese language
- Camões Prize
- Prémio Leya
- Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura (from 2007 onwards)
Spanish language
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize - female authors
- Premio Planeta
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
Dutch language
- Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
- Constantijn Huygens Prize
- Gouden Griffel for children's literature (translated works can win a Zilveren Griffel)
- Multatuliprijs
- P. C. Hooft Award
- Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren
Scandinavian authors
Asian Authors
Southeast Asian authors
Arabic Language
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- Ambassador Book Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals in Belles Lettres, Criticism and Essays
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry
- American Book Award
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Bancroft Prize
- The Best American Poetry series
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- Creative Spirit Award
- The Dana Award
- Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award
- Fabri Literary Prize
- FieldReport Prize for Experiential Writing
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Frost Medal
- Golden Book Awards
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hopwood Award
- Hugo Award
- James Duval Phelan Award
- James Laughlin Award
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- Joseph Henry Jackson Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Poetry Series
- Nebula Award for Science Fiction
- New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- Poets' Prize
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Pushcart Prize
- Quill Awards
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- Robert Olen Butler Prize
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
- Short Story Award
- Spur Award
- St.Francis College Literary Prize
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Stonewall Book Award
- The Story Prize
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
- Whiting Writers' Award
- Aurealis Award
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
- Miles Franklin Award
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- Patrick White Award
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
- Floriana Prize
- Förderungspreis für Literatur
- Erich Fried Prize
- Alfred Gesswein Prize
- Franz Kafka Prize
- Kolik Literary Prize
- Theodor Kramer Prize for literature in exile
- Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
- Manuskripte Prize
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation
- City of Vienna Prize for Young Literary Translators
- Pannonia Literary Prize
- Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
- Peter Rosegger Prize
- Manès-Sperber-Preis für Literatur
- Alexander Sacher-Masoch Prize
- Literary Prize Steyr
- Adalbert Stifter Prize
- Otto Stoessl Prize
- Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry
- Wiener Werkstadtpreis
- Anton Wildgans Prize
- Bangla Academy Award
- Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroskar
- Author's Club First Novel Award
- Betty Trask Award
- Booker Prize
- British Book Awards -- the "Nibbies"
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Forward Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Newdigate prize
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- The Orwell Prize
- Samuel Johnson Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Waverton Good Read Award
- Costa Book Awards
- Arthur Ellis Award
- Booker Prize
- Canadian Poets Award
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Edna Staebler Award
- Geoffrey Bilson Award
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- Governor General's Award
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- Marian Engel Award
- Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
- Norma Fleck Award
- Writers' Trust Notable Author Award
- Pat Lowther Award
- Stephen Leacock Award
- Scotiabank Giller Prize In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
- Trillium Award
- Wright Awards
Central and Eastern European literature
- The Austrian Grand Prize for East European Literature
- Vilenica prize
- Angelus prize
- Złote Pióro "Wolnomularza Polskiego" (Gold Pen of "Polish Freemason")
- Maodun Prize for Literature
- Caoyu Prize for Drama
- Laoshi Prize for Literature
- Fengmu Prize for Literature
- Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani
- Dobrojutro, more
- Nagrada Dimitrije Demetar
- Nagrada za dramsko djelo Marin Držić
- Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
- Goran za mlade pjesnike
- Goranov vijenac
- Nagrada Ivan Goran Kovačić
- Nagrada Ranko Marinković
- Nagrada Vladimir Nazor
- Nagrada SFERA (until 1991, applied for whole Yugoslavia)
- Nagrada August Šenoa
- Nagrada Antun Branko Šimić
- Nagrada Tin Ujević
- Nagrada Grigor Vitez
- Jaroslav Seifert Prize
- Magnesia Litera Prize
- Jiří Orten Prize
- Finlandia Prize for literature
- Thanks for the Book Award for literature
- Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
- Prix Alain-Fournier
- Prix Décembre
- Prix de Flore
- Prix des Deux-Magots
- Prix Femina
- Prix Fénéon
- Prix Goncourt
- Prix Interallié
- Prix Joseph-Kessel
- Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
- Prix Médicis
- Prix Renaudot
- Shota Rustaveli State Prize
- Saba Prize
- German Book Prize
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
- Georg Büchner Prize
- Goethe Prize
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize
- Heinrich Heine Prize
- Kassel Literary Prize
- Kleist Prize
- Hans Fallada Prize
- Heinrich Mann Prize
- Hermann Kesten Medal
- Nelly Sachs Prize
- Roswitha Prize
- Schiller Memorial Prize
- Solothurner Literaturpreis
- Toucan Prize
- Eule des Monats
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
- Bialik Prize
- Sapir Prize
- Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
- Ze'ev Prize (for children's literature)
- Attila József Prize
- Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award
- Baumgarten Prize
- Kossuth Prize
- Ananda Purashkar
- Hutch Crossword Book Award
- Jnanpith Award
- Kalidas Samman
- Pampa Award
- Rabindra Puraskar
- Sahitya Akademi Award
- Michel Madhusudan Award
- Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition
- Khatulistiwa Literary Award
- Adhikarya Ikapi Award
- Bagutta Prize
- Premio Bancarella
- Premio Campiello
- Premio Strega
- Premio Urania
- Viareggio Prize
- Flaiano Prize
- Akutagawa Prize
- Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets Prize (Gendai Kajin Kyōkai Shō)
- Bungakukai Prize for New Writers (Bungakukai Shinjin Shō)
- Chōkū Prize (Chōkū Shō)
- Contemporary Japanese Poets Prize (Gendai Shijin Shō)
- Dazai Osamu Prize
- Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize (Hagiwara Sakutarō Shō)
- Haidan Prize (Haidan Shō)
- Ito Sei Prize for Literature
- Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
- Japan Horror Story Grand Prize (Nihon Horā Shōsetsu Taishō)
- Japan SF Grand Prize (Nihon SF Taishō)
- Kadan Prize (Kadan Shō)
- Kaikō Takeshi Prize for Nonfiction (Kaikō Takeshi Nonfikushon Shō)
- Kawabata Yasunari Prize
- Kikuchi Hiroshi Prize (Kikuchi Hiroshi Shō)
- Kobayashi Hideo Prize (Kobayashi Hideo Shō)
- Kōno Aiko Prize (Kōno Aiko Shō)
- Matsumoto Seichō Prize (Matsumoto Seichō Shō)
- Yukio Mishima Prize
- Mr. H Prize (H-shi Shō)
- Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Literature (Murasaki Shikibu Bungaku Shō)
- Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Tanka and Haiku Prize(Shiika Bungakukan Shō)
- Nakahara Chūya Prize
- Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
- Next Prize (Nekusuto Shō)
- Nitta Jirō Prize for Literature (Nitta Jirō Bungaku Shō)
- Noma Prize for Literature
- Oda Sakunosuke Prize (Oda Sakunosuke Shō)
- Osaragi Jirō Prize (Osaragi Jirō Shō)
- Ōya Sōichi Prize for Nonfiction (Ōya Sōichi Nonfikushon Shō)
- Poplar Publishing Grand Prize for Fiction (Popura-sha Shōsetsu Taishō)
- Rennyo Prize (Rennyo Shō)
- Shinchō Prize for Distinguished Scholarship (Shinchō Gakugei Shō)
- Shōgakukan Grand Prize for Nonfiction (Shōgakukan Nonfikushon Taishō)
- Subaru Prize for Literature
- Takami Jun Prize (Takami Jun Shō)
- Tanizaki Prize
- Terayama Shūji Prize for Tanka (Terayama Shūji Tanka Shō)
- Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes (Tezuka Osamu Bunka Shō)
- Tsubouchi Shōyō Prize (Tsubouchi Shōyō Taishō)
- Women's Literature Prize
- Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize (Yamamoto Shūgorō Shō)
- Yokomitsu Prize
- Yokomizo Seishi Prize (Yokomizo Seishi Shō)
- Yomiuri Prize for Literature
- Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature (Yoshikawa Eiji Bungaku Shō)
- Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers (Yoshikawa Eiji Bungaku Shinjin Shō)
Luxembourgian literature
- Batty Weber Prize
- Servais Prize
- Nigeria Prize for Literature
- Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize
- NBU-prisen
- Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl
- Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression
- Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
- Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
- Nike Award
- Nagroda Literacka Gdynia
- Prešeren Award
- Prešeren Foundation Award
- Kresnik
- Rožanec Award
- Stritar Award
- Desetnica (literary award)|Desetnica
- Večernica (literary award)|Večernica
- Vilenica (literary award)|Vilenica
- Jenko Award
- Župančič Award
- Vstajenje (literary award)|Vstajenje
- Levstik Award
- Pretnar Award
- Sovre Award
- Original Slovenian Picture Book Award
- Golden Bird Award
- Veronika Award
- Grum Award
South African Literature
- Alba Bouwer Prize
- Alan Paton Award
- Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
- Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
- Hertzog Prize
- M-Net Literary Awards
- The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Premio Nadal
- Premio Planeta
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- Premio Nacional de Literatura
- Premio Alfaguara
- Premi Sant Jordi
- Premio Azorín
- Premio Primavera de Novela
- Premio Nacional de Narrativa
- Premio Fernando Lara de Novela
- Premio de la Crítica
- Premio Fastenrath
- Premi Prudenci Bertrana
- Aniarapriset -- awarded by the Swedish Library Association.
- Augustpriset
- C S Lewis-priset
- De Nios Stora Pris
- Lilla Augustpriset for children's literature
- Piratenpriset
- Svenska Akademins nordiska pris
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award -- awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
- Lin Rung San Literature Award
- Taipei Literature Award
- Taiwan Literature Award
- Takau Literature Award
- S.E.A.Write Award
- Sriburapha Award
- Thailand National Book Award
Ukrainian Literature
- Shevchenko National Prize since 1961
- Maxym Rylskyi Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 1972
Venezuelan literature
Genres
- Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) - since 1922
- Carnegie Medal (UK) - since 1936
- Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) - since 1938
- Governor General's Award for English language children's literature (Canada) - since 1949
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award (USA) - since 1953
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (USA) - since 1954
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (International) - since 1956
- Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) - since 1956
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) - since 1957
- Guardian Award (UK) - since 1967
- Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) - since 1970
- Tir na n-Og Awards (UK - Wales) - since 1976
- Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (UK) - 1985-2007
- Prix Sorcières (France) - since 1986
- Governor General's Award for French language children's literature (Canada) - since 1987
- Bisto Book of the Year Awards (Ireland) - since 1990
- Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature (USA) - since 1991
- The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland) - since 1995
- Angus Book Award (UK) - since 1996
- Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA) - since 1996
- Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK) - since 1996
- Children's Laureate (UK) - since 1999
- Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA) - since 2000
- Sibert Medal for informational books (USA) - since 2001
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (International) - since 2003
- NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature
- Golden Book Awards - since 2010
- Colby Award for a first work of fiction or non-fiction - since 1999
- Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing - since 2007
- Golden Book Awards for fiction - since 2010
- Agatha Award
- Anthony Award
- Arthur Ellis Awards by the Crime Writers of Canada
- Barry Award
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award -- awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
- Crime Writers' Association awards:
- Cartier Diamond Dagger
- Dagger in the Library
- Dagger of Daggers
- Debut Dagger
- Duncan Lawrie International Dagger
- Gold Dagger
- Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
- John Creasey Memorial New Blood Dagger
- Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award
- Short Story Award
- Glass Key award
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
- Hammett Prize
- Left Coast Crime awards
- Macavity Award
- Martin Beck Award
- Mystery Writers of America awards:
- Edgar Award
- Grand Master Award
- Shamus Award
- Sherlock Award
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
- Golden Book Awards
- Hugo Award - since 1955
- Nebula Award - since 1965
- BSFA award - since 1970
- Locus Award - since 1971
- Mythopoeic Awards -- Awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis - since 1971
- Prix Tour-Apollo Award - since 1972
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel - since 1973
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction - since 1973
- World Fantasy Award - since 1975
- Prometheus Award -- best Libertarian SF - since 1979
- Philip K. Dick Award - since 1982
- Compton Crook Award -- best first time novel in genre in a year - since 1983
- Janusz A. Zajdel Award -- award given by Polish fandom - since 1984
- Writers of the Future -- contest for new authors - since 1985
- Illustrators of the Future -- contest for new illustrators
- Arthur C. Clarke Award - since 1987
- SFRA Pioneer Award -- best critical essay length work - since 1990
- Tiptree award - since 1991
- Sidewise Award for Alternate History - since 1995
- Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service -- promotion of SF teaching and study, etc. - since 1996
- WSFA Small Press Award - since 2007
- Golden Book Awards - since 2010
See also
External links
- Award Annals: ranked lists of books that received literary award honors
- Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years
- Author Ranking by Literary Awards: ranked lists of authors that received prominent literary award honors
- Book Prize Information: A source of information on book prizes and prizewinning books.
- "The Art of Prize-Fighting", by Tom Chatfield in Prospect Magazine, January 2009. Essay on the history and merit of modern literary prizes.
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