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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

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

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

• Nordic Council's Literature Prize

Asian Authors

• Man Asian Literary Prize

Southeast Asian authors

• S.E.A.Write Award

Arabic Language

• Sheikh Zayed Book Award
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction

American literature

• 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
• Bancroft Prize
• The Best American Poetry series
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
• Bollingen Prize
• Creative Spirit Award
• The Dana Award
• 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
• 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
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • General Non-Fiction
• 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

Australian literature

• 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

Austrian literature

• 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

Bangladeshi literature

• Bangla Academy Award
• Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroskar

Brazilian literature

• Premio Jabuti
• Premio Machado de Assis

British literature

• 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

Bulgarian literature

• Vick Prize

Canadian literature

• 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")

Chilean literature

• Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature

• Maodun Prize for Literature
• Caoyu Prize for Drama
• Laoshi Prize for Literature
• Fengmu Prize for Literature

Croatian language

• 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

Czech Literature

• Jaroslav Seifert Prize
• Magnesia Litera Prize
• Jiří Orten Prize

Finnish literature

• Finlandia Prize for literature
• Thanks for the Book Award for literature

French 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

Georgian literature

• Shota Rustaveli State Prize
• Saba Prize

German literature

• 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 Prize
• Solothurner Literaturpreis
• Toucan Prize
• Eule des Monats
• Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

Hebrew literature

• Bialik Prize
• Sapir Prize
• Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
• Ze'ev Prize (for children's literature)

Hungarian literature

• Attila József Prize
• Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award
• Baumgarten Prize
• Kossuth Prize

Icelandic literature

• Icelandic Literary Prize

Indian literature

• Ananda Purashkar
• Hutch Crossword Book Award
• Jnanpith Award
• Kalidas Samman
• Pampa Award
• Rabindra Puraskar
• Sahitya Akademi Award

Indonesian literature

• Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition
• Khatulistiwa Literary Award
• Adhikarya Ikapi Award

Irish literature

• Irish Book Awards

Israeli literature

• Bialik Prize
• Geffen Award
• Jerusalem Prize
• Sapir Prize
• Yitzhak Sadeh Prize

Italian literature

• Bagutta Prize
• Premio Bancarella
• Premio Campiello
• Premio Strega
• Premio Urania
• Viareggio Prize
• Flaiano Prize

Japanese literature

• 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

Mexican literature

• Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
• Xavier Villaurrutia Award

New Zealand literature

Nigerian literature

• Nigeria Prize for Literature

Norwegian 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

Philippine literature

• Palanca Award

Polish literature

• Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
• Nike Award
• Nagroda Literacka Gdynia

Portuguese literature

• Prémio Camões

Russian literature

• Solzhenitsyn Prize
• Russian Booker Prize
• Pushkin Prize

Slovene literature

• Prešeren Award
• Prešeren Foundation Award
• Kresnik
• Rožanec Award
• Stritar Award
• Desetnica
• Večernica
• Vilenica
• Jenko Award
• Župančič 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

Spanish literature

• 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

Swedish literature

• 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

Swiss literature

• Swiss Book Prize

Taiwanese literature

• Lin Rung San Literature Award
• Taipei Literature Award
• Taiwan Literature Award
• Takau Literature Award

Thai literature

• S.E.A.Write Award
• Sriburapha Award
• Thailand National Book Award

Ukrainian Literature

• Shevchenko National Prize since 1961

Venezuelan literature

• Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize

Genres

Children's literature

• 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

Mystery: Crime fiction and Detective fiction

• 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
  • Lefty award
  • The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery
• 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

Science fiction and fantasy

• 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

Sports

• CASEY Award – baseball

See also

• List of poetry awards
• List of comics awards

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.