List of literary awards



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 articles on Wikipedia.

International

 * 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
 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006
 * European Union Prize for Literature‎ - since 2009
 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001
 * Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature – since 1956
 * International Botev Prize - since 1972
 * International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature - since 2009
 * Jerusalem Prize – since 1963
 * Man Booker International Prize - since 2005
 * Montreal International Poetry Prize – since 2011
 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970
 * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901
 * Ovid Prize - since 2002
 * Paris Literary Prize - since 2010
 * Premio Príncipe de Asturias – since 1981
 * Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa - since 2007
 * Prince of Asturias Awards - since 1980

Ireland

 * Irish Book Awards

Commonwealth

 * Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
 * Commonwealth Writers' Prize
 * John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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.
 * The 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.
 * The Marsh Children's Literature in Translation Award recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK it was designed to spotlight the high quality and diversity of translated fiction for young readers.

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

Portuguese

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

Dutch

 * Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord (Ark Prize of the Free Word)
 * Constantijn Huygens Prize
 * Gouden Griffel for children's literature (translated works can win a Zilveren Griffel)
 * P. C. Hooft Award
 * Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren

Scandinavian

 * Nordic Council's Literature Prize

Asian

 * Man Asian Literary Prize
 * DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Southeast Asian

 * S.E.A.Write Award

Arabic

 * International Prize for Arabic Fiction
 * Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
 * Sheikh Zayed Book Award

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 Awards
 * Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
 * Arab American Book 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
 * The Best American Poetry series
 * Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
 * Bollingen Prize
 * The Dana Award
 * Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
 * Edgar Allan Poe Award
 * Edward Lewis Wallant Award
 * Fabri Literary Prize
 * Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
 * Frost Medal
 * Goldsmith Book Prize
 * Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
 * Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
 * Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
 * 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
 * Micro Award for Flash Fiction
 * National Book Award
 * National Book Critics Circle Award
 * National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
 * National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
 * National Poetry Series
 * Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
 * 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/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)
 * Poets' Prize
 * Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
 * 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
 * Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
 * 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
 * Erich Fried Prize
 * Franz Kafka Prize
 * Austrian State Prize for European Literature
 * Anton Wildgans Prize

Bangladeshi literature

 * Bangla Academy Award

Botswana literature

 * Bessie Head Literature Awards

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
 * 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
 * Pat Lowther Award
 * Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
 * Scotiabank Giller Prize In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
 * Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (Shaughnessy Cohen Award)
 * Stephen Leacock Award
 * TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
 * Trillium Award
 * Winterset Award
 * Wright Awards
 * Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
 * Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize

Chilean literature

 * Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature

 * Maodun Prize for Literature

Croatian language

 * Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani
 * Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
 * Nagrada Matice Hrvatske

Czech Literature

 * Magnesia Litera Prize

Finnish literature

 * Finlandia Prize for literature
 * Runeberg 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 Littéraire Valery Larbaud
 * Prix Médicis
 * Prix Renaudot

Georgian literature

 * Shota Rustaveli State 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 Memorial Prize
 * Solothurner Literaturpreis
 * Toucan Prize
 * Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

Hebrew literature

 * Bialik Prize
 * Sapir Prize
 * Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)

Hungarian literature

 * 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
 * Saraswati Samman
 * DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
 * Moortidevi Award

Indonesian literature

 * Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition

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
 * Dazai Osamu Prize
 * Edogawa Rampo Award
 * Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
 * Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
 * Kikuchi Kan Prize (Kan Kikuchi Shō)
 * Yukio Mishima Prize
 * Mystery Writers of Japan Award
 * Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
 * Noma Prize for Literature
 * Tanizaki Prize
 * Yomiuri Prize for Literature

Luxembourgian literature

 * Batty Weber Prize
 * Servais Prize

Mexican literature

 * Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
 * Xavier Villaurrutia Award

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
 * Philippine National Book Awards

Polish literature

 * Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
 * Nike Award

Portuguese literature

 * Prémio Camões

Russian literature

 * Solzhenitsyn Prize
 * Russian Booker Prize
 * Pushkin Prize

Slovene literature

 * Prešeren Award
 * Prešeren Foundation Award
 * Kresnik

South African Literature

 * Alan Paton Award
 * Alba Bouwer Prize
 * Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
 * Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
 * Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
 * Percy FitzPatrick Award
 * Hertzog Prize
 * Ingrid Jonker Prize
 * M-Net Literary Awards
 * Olive Schreiner Prize
 * Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
 * The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
 * Thomas Pringle Award

Spanish literature

 * 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

Sri Lanka

 * Gratiaen Prize
 * State Literary Award

Swedish literature

 * Augustpriset
 * De Nios Stora Pris
 * Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy

Swiss literature

 * Swiss Book Prize

Thai literature

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

Turkish literature

 * 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
 * Maxym Rylskyi Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 1972
 * Ars translationis — Mykola Lukash Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 1989
 * Hryhoriy Kochur Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 2010

Venezuelan literature

 * Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize

Children's literature

 * Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) – since 1922
 * Carnegie Medal (UK) – since 1936
 * Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration – 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 (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
 * 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

History

 * Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction - since 2008

Horror Fiction

 * Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in horror writing - since 1987

Military fiction and military history

 * 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

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
 * Duncan Lawrie International Dagger
 * Gold Dagger
 * Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
 * Short Story Award
 * Glass Key award
 * Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
 * Hammett Prize
 * Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize - awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
 * Left Coast Crime awards
 * Lefty award
 * The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery
 * Macavity Award
 * Martin Beck Award
 * Mystery Writers of America awards:
 * Edgar Award
 * Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
 * Mystery Writers of Japan Award
 * Edogawa Rampo Award
 * Shamus 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
 * 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

 * General
 * William Hill Sports Book of the Year (UK)


 * Baseball
 * CASEY Award (US)
 * Jerry Malloy Book Prize (US)
 * Seymour Medal (US)

Biography

 * 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.