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This is a list of literary awards from around the world. This list is not intended to be complete, and is instead a list of those literary awards with Wikipedia articles.
International awards
All nationalities eligible (in chronological order)
- Nobel Prize in Literature - since 1901
- Prix Femina - since 1904
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings - since 1966
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature - since 1970
- America Award - since 1994
- Franz Kafka Prize - since 2001
- Man Booker International Prize - since 2005
- The Warwick Prize for Writing - since 2008
- Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009
- International Rubery Book Award - since 2010
- KONS International Literary Award - since 2011
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes - since 2013
Other
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's and youth literature – since 2003
- Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award for poets and translators – since 1997
- The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978
- Candide Preis – since 1995
- Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006
- Goethe Prize – since 1927
- Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature – since 1956
- International Botev Prize – since 1972
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
- Jerusalem Prize – since 1963
- Kiriyama Prize - since 1996
- Montreal International Poetry Prize – since 2011
- NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature - since 2003
- Ovid Prize – since 2002
- Paris Literary Prize – since 2010
- Prince of Asturias Awards – since 1981
- Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa – since 2007
- Sydney Taylor Book Award - for Jewish children's and teen literature, since 1968
Awards by language
Arabic
- Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction
- Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Bengali
- Rabindra Puraskar
- Bankim Puraskar
- Ananda Puraskar
- Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
- Bangla Academy Award
Chinese
- Bing Xin Children's Literature Award
- Dream of the Red Chamber Award
- Lu Xun Literary Prize
- Mao Dun Literature Prize
- Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
German
- Georg Büchner Prize for the overall literary oeuvre
- Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose
- German Book Prize for the best German language novel of the year
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) for the best debut novel written in German
- Kleist Prize (first awarded in 1912)
Hebrew
- Bialik Prize
- Sapir Prize
- Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
Malayalam
- Edasseri Award
- Ezhuthachan Puraskaram
- Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
- Muttathu Varkey Award
- Odakkuzhal Award
- Padmarajan Award
- Vallathol Award
- Vayalar Award
Portuguese
- Camões Prize
- Prémio Leya
- Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature (from 2007 onwards)
- Prémio Literário José Saramago
- São Paulo Prize for Literature
Spanish
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize – female authors
- Premio Planeta
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
- Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa
- Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize
Awards by region
African
- Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation
- Brunel University African Poetry Prize
- Caine Prize
- Etisalat Prize for Literature
- Golden Baobab Prize
- Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
- Lotus Prize for Literature (discontinued)
- Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (discontinued)
- Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry
- Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Asian
Caribbean literature
Commonwealth
- Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize (discontinued)
- Encore Award - since 1990
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
European Union
- European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009
Nordic
Awards by country
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- 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 Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Arab American Book Award
- Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Asian American Literary Awards
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
- Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Bancroft Prize
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
- The Best American Poetry series
- Best Translated Book Award
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- Bram Stoker Award
- Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
- Christopher Hewitt Award
- Colorado Book Award
- The Dana Award
- Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
- Dos Passos Prize
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award
- Fabri Literary Prize
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Frost Medal
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Gregory Kolovakos Award
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
- Hopwood Award
- Hugo Award
- James Duval Phelan Award
- James Jones First Novel Award
- James Laughlin Award
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
- Joseph Henry Jackson Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- Minnesota Book Award
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Outdoor Book Award
- National Poetry Series
- National Translation Award
- Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
- Nautilus Book Awards
- Nebula Award for Science Fiction
- Newbery Medal
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
- PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work)
- PEN/Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins, for writers of color)
- PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
- PEN Translation Fund Grants
- Poets' Prize
- Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
- Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Pushcart Prize
- Quill Awards
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- Robert Olen Butler Prize
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Scott Moncrieff Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
- Short Story Award
- Spur Award
- St. Francis College Literary Prize
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
- Stonewall Book Award
- The Story Prize
- Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
- Whiting Awards
- Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
- Aurealis Award awarded annually for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35
- Miles Franklin Award for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’
- 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
- Erich Fried Prize
- Franz Kafka Prize
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- Anton Wildgans Prize
- Author's Club First Novel Award
- Betty Trask Award
- Booker Prize
- British Book Awards – the "Nibbies"
- Chancellor's Gold Medal
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- Dundee International Book Prize
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Forward Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize
- International Rubery Book Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Meyer-Whitworth Award
- Newdigate prize
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- Orwell Prize
- Samuel Johnson Prize
- SI Leeds Literary Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Waverton Good Read Award
- Costa Book Awards
- Marsh Biography Award awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.
- Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK.
- Arthur Ellis Award
- Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
- Booker Prize
- Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature
- Canadian Jewish Book Awards
- Carol Bolt Award
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize
- Doug Wright Award
- Edna Staebler Award
- Geoffrey Bilson Award
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- Governor General's Award
- Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition
- Innis-Gérin Medal
- John Glassco Translation Prize
- Journey Prize
- Kobzar Literary Award
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award
- McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
- Norma Fleck Award
- Pat Lowther Award
- Percy Janes First Novel Award
- Prix Anne-Hébert
- Prix Athanase-David
- Prix du Cercle du livre de France
- Prix Ringuet
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- ReLit Awards
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Ryerson Fiction Award (discontinued)
- Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
- Shaughnessy Cohen Award
- Stephen Leacock Award
- Sunburst Award
- TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
- Thomas Head Raddall Award
- Trillium Award
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Winterset Award
- Wright Awards
- Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award
- Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani
- Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
- Nagrada Matice Hrvatske
- Finlandia Prize for literature
- Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
- Runeberg 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 du roman Fnac
- Prix Goncourt
- Prix Interallié
- Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
- Prix Médicis
- Prix Renaudot
- Candide Preis (the only one German-French Literary award)
- Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
- Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
- Candide Preis, German-French literary award in memoriam of Voltaire's novella Candide
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal, an annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memoriam of Carl Zuckmayer
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
- German Book Prize, awarded annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair for the best German language novel of the year
- Georg Büchner Prize, awarded annually by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in memoriam of Georg Büchner
- Goethe Prize, awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memoriam of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize
- Heinrich Heine Prize
- Hans Fallada Prize, a biennial literary prize in memoriam of Hans Fallada
- Heinrich Mann Prize
- Hermann Kesten Medal
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
- Kassel Literary Prize
- Kleist Prize
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, an annual science fiction award in memoriam of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize
- Nelly Sachs Prize
- Roswitha Prize
- Schiller Memorial Prize
- Toucan Prize
- Bagutta Prize
- Premio Bancarella
- Premio Campiello
- Premio Strega
- Premio Urania
- Viareggio Prize
- Flaiano Prize
- Akutagawa Prize
- Bungei Prize
- Dazai Osamu Prize
- Edogawa Rampo Prize
- Honkaku Mystery Award
- Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
- Kikuchi Kan Prize (Kan Kikuchi Shō)
- Mishima Yukio Prize
- Mystery Writers of Japan Award
- Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
- Noma Prize for Literature
- Ōe Kenzaburō Prize
- Tanizaki Prize
- Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
- Yomiuri Prize for Literature
- Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
- Xavier Villaurrutia Award
- FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages
- Esther Glen Award for children's literature
- Joy Cowley Award for children's literature
- Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction and fantasy
- New Zealand Post Book Awards
- Ngaio Marsh Award
- Margaret Mahy Award
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
- Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing – for works in the Hausa language
- 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
- Fabula Award
- Jenko Award
- KONS International Literary Award
- Kresnik Award
- Levstik Award
- Prešeren Award
- Prešeren Foundation Award
- Rožanc Award
- Veronika Award
- Vilenica Prize
- Alan Paton Award
- Alba Bouwer Prize
- Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
- ATKV Prose Prize
- Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
- C.P. Hoogenhout Award
- Central News Agency Literary Award
- David Higham Prize for Fiction
- Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
- Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
- Eugène Marais Prize
- Hertzog Prize
- Ingrid Jonker Prize
- M-Net Literary Awards
- Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
- Media24 Books Literary Awards
- Olive Schreiner Prize
- Percy FitzPatrick Award
- Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
- South African Literary Awards
- The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
- Thomas Pringle Award
- University of Johannesburg Prize
South Korean literature
- Dong-in Literary Award
- Manhae Prize
- Yi Sang Literary Award
- So-Wol Poetry Prize
- Park Kyung-ni Prize
- Ho-Am Prize in the Arts
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Premio Nadal
- Premio Planeta
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- Premio Nacional de Literatura
- Premio Azorín
- Premio de la Crítica
- Premi Prudenci Bertrana
- Prince of Asturias Awards
- Augustpriset
- De Nios Stora Pris
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
- Erdal Oz Literature Award
- Orhan Kemal Literature Award
- Sait Faik Abasıyanık Literature Award
- Sedat Simavi Literature Award
- Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Literature Award
Ukrainian literature
- Shevchenko National Prize since 1961
Venezuelan literature
Awards by genres
- Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) – since 1922
- Carnegie Medal (UK) – since 1936
- Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration – since 1938
- Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (Australia)- since 1946
- 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 (Wales, UK) – 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
- Gelett burgess children's book award (USA) – since 2010
- 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
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award
- Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan) – since 2001
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (international) – since 2003
Food and drink
- Langhe Ceretto Prize (international) – since 1991
- Wolfson History Prize – since 1972
- Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction – since 2008
- Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in horror writing – since 1987
- Lord Ruthven Award for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature - since 1989.
- Colby Award for a first work of fiction or non-fiction – since 1999
- Pritzker Military Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing – since 2007
- W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction – since 1997
- Agatha Award
- Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
- Anthony Award
- Arthur Ellis Awards by the Crime Writers of Canada
- Ayukawa Tetsuya Award
- Barry Award
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
- Crime Writers' Association awards:
- Glass Key award
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
- Hammett Prize
- Honkaku Mystery Award – awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
- Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize
- Left Coast Crime awards
- Macavity Award
- Martin Beck Award
- Mephisto Prize
- Mystery Writers of America awards:
- Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
- Shamus Award
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
- Hugo Award – since 1955
- Nebula Award – since 1965
- Ditmar Award (Australia) – since 1969
- BSFA award – since 1970
- Seiun 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
- Paul Harland Prize (Netherlands) – since 1976
- Prometheus Award – best Libertarian SF – since 1979
- Nihon SF Taisho Award – since 1980
- Prix Aurora Award (Canada) – since 1980
- Prix Rosny-Aîné (France) – since 1980
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany) – since 1981
- Philip K. Dick Award – since 1982
- Compton Crook Award – best first time novel in genre in a year – since 1983
- Janusz A. Zajdel Award – (Poland) – since 1984
- Writers of the Future – contest for new authors – since 1985
- Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) – since 1986
- Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987
- Japan Fantasy Novel Award – since 1989
- Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand) – since 1989
- Urania Award (Italy) – since 1989
- SFRA Pioneer Award – best critical essay-length work – since 1990
- Tiptree award – since 1991
- Chandler Award (Australia) – since 1992
- Sidewise Award for Alternate History – since 1995
- Aurealis Award (Australia) – since 1995
- Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service – promotion of SF teaching and study, etc. – since 1996
- Endeavour Award (Pacific Northwest) – since 1999
- Nautilus Award (Poland) – since 2003
- WSFA Small Press Award – since 2007
- Tähtifantasia Award (Finland) – since 2007
- Kitschies (UK) – since 2009
- General
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year (UK)
- British Sports Book Awards (UK)
- PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (US)
- Baseball
- CASEY Award (US)
- Jerry Malloy Book Prize (US)
- Seymour Medal (US)
- Dave Moore Award (US)
- Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.
Awards for Literary Translation
- PEN Translation Prize - awarded annually for a translation from any language into English.
- Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize - awarded annually for a book-length translation from any language into English.
- Rossica Translation Prize - awarded biennially by Academia Rossica[1] to a translation from Russian into English.
- National Translation Award - an annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association[2]
- Popescu Prize - awarded biennially for a translation of poetry from a European language into English. Awarded by the Poetry Society.
- Willis Barnstone Translation Prize - annually awarded to a translation of a poem from any language into English.
- Scott Moncrieff Prize - awarded annually for French to English translation.
- Arkansas Arabic Translation Award - awarded annually for a notable book-length translation from Arabic into English.
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation - awarded annually for Arabic to English literary translation.
- Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation - awarded for a translation of prose or poetry into English from any other of the South African official languages.
- Rossica Young Translators Prize - open to submissions from translators aged under 25, awarded annually for the translation of a passage of contemporary fiction from Russian into English.[3]
- Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize - open to submissions from translators aged between 18 and 34, awarded annually, focusing on a different language every year.[4]
See also
References
External links
- Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years
- Graphical Author and Novel Ranking by Literary Awards: graphical ranking of authors and novels that received prominent literary award honors (tabs across the top)
- African Literary Awards Database, Indiana University