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This is a list of literary awards from around the world:

Contents 1 Worldwide in scope 2 International awards of limited scope 2.1 British Commonwealth and Ireland 2.2 English language 2.3 Portuguese language 2.4 Spanish language 2.5 Dutch language 2.6 Scandinavian authors 2.7 Asian Authors 2.8 Southeast Asian authors 2.9 Arabic Fiction 3 American literature 4 Australian literature 5 Austrian literature 6 Bangladeshi literature 7 Brazilian literature 8 British literature 9 Bulgarian literature 10 Canadian literature 11 Central and Eastern European literature 12 Chilean literature 13 Chinese literature 14 Croatian language 15 Czech Literature 16 Finnish literature 17 French literature 18 Georgian literature 19 German literature 20 Hebrew literature 21 Hungarian literature 22 Icelandic literature 23 Indian literature 24 Indonesian literature 25 Irish literature 26 Israeli literature 27 Italian literature 28 Japanese literature 29 Luxembourgian literature 30 Mexican literature 31 New Zealand literature 32 Norwegian literature 33 Philippine literature 34 Polish literature 35 Portuguese literature 36 Russian literature 37 Slovene literature 38 South African Literature 39 Spanish literature 40 Swedish literature 41 Swiss literature 42 Thai literature 43 Venezuelan literature 44 Genres 44.1 Children's literature 44.2 Mystery: Crime fiction and Detective fiction 44.3 Science fiction and fantasy 45 See also 46 External links

[edit] Worldwide in scope

• Nobel Prize in Literature - since 1901
• 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

[edit] International awards of limited scope

[edit] British Commonwealth and Ireland

• Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
• Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Irish Book Awards

[edit] 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

[edit] Portuguese language

• Camões Prize
• Prémio Leya
• Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura (from 2007 onwards)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Scandinavian authors

• Nordic Council's Literature Prize

[edit] Asian Authors

• Man Asian Literary Prize

[edit] Southeast Asian authors

• S.E.A.Write Award

[edit] Arabic Fiction

• International Prize for Arabic Fiction

[edit] 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Bangladeshi literature

• Bangla Academy Award
• Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroskar

[edit] Brazilian literature

• Premio Jabuti
• Premio Machado de Assis

[edit] 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

[edit] Bulgarian literature

• Vick Prize

[edit] 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

[edit] 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")

[edit] Chilean literature

• Chilean National Prize for Literature

[edit] Chinese literature

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Czech Literature

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

[edit] Finnish literature

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Georgian literature

• Shota Rustaveli State Prize
• Saba Prize

[edit] 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

[edit] Hebrew literature

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

[edit] Hungarian literature

• Attila József Prize
• Baumgarten Prize
• Kossuth Prize

[edit] Icelandic literature

• Icelandic Literary Prize

[edit] Indian literature

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

[edit] Indonesian literature

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

[edit] Irish literature

• Irish Book Awards

[edit] Israeli literature

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

[edit] Italian literature

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Luxembourgian literature

• Batty Weber Prize
• Servais Prize

[edit] Mexican literature

• Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
• Xavier Villaurrutia Award

[edit] New Zealand literature

[edit] 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

[edit] Philippine literature

• Palanca Award

[edit] Polish literature

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

[edit] Portuguese literature

• Prémio Camões

[edit] Russian literature

• Solzhenitsyn Prize

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Swiss literature

• Swiss Book Prize

[edit] Thai literature

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

[edit] Venezuelan literature

• Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize

[edit] Genres

[edit] Children's literature

• Newbery Medal (USA)
• Newbery Honor (USA)
• Caldecott Medal (USA)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (USA)
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA)
• Governor General's Award (Canada)
• Carnegie Medal (UK)
• Children's Laureate (UK)
• Guardian Award (UK)
• Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK)
• Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK)
• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (UK)
• Angus Book Award (UK)
• Tir na n-Og Awards (UK - Wales)
• Bisto Book of the Year Awards (Ireland)
• The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland)
• Hans Christian Andersen Award (International)
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (International)
• Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA)
• Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA)
• Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA)
• Robert F. Sibert Award for informational books (USA)
• Jane Addams Children's Book Award (USA)
• Prix Sorcières (France)
• NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature
• Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature (USA)

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] Science fiction and fantasy

• Hugo Award
• Nebula Award
• Locus Award
• Sidewise Award for Alternate History
• Tiptree award
• BSFA award
• Prix Apollo
• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Writers of the Future -- contest for new authors
• Illustrators of the Future -- contest for new illustrators
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
• John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction
• Philip K. Dick Award
• Compton Crook Award --Best first time novel in Genera in a year.
• Prometheus Award -- best Libertarian SF
• Janusz A. Zajdel Award -- award given by Polish fandom
• World Fantasy Award
• WSFA Small Press Award
• SFRA Pioneer Award -- best critical essay length work
• Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service -- promotion of SF teaching and study, etc.
• Mythopoeic Awards -- Awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

[edit] See also

• List of poetry awards
• List of comics awards

[edit] External links

• List of novels that have won the most awards.
• 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.