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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 articles on Wikipedia.

International[]

See also: Category:International literary awards
  • 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

Regional[]

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[]

See also: Category:American literary awards

Australian literature[]

Main article: List of Australian literary awards
  • 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[]

Main article: List of British literary awards
  • 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[]

Central and Eastern European literature[]

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Chilean literature[]

  • Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature[]

  • Maodun Prize for Literature

Croatian language[]

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

New Zealand literature[]

Main article: List of New Zealand literary awards

Nigerian literature[]

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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

Taiwanese literature[]

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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[]

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) 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[]

Main article: List of science fiction 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
  • 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.

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