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List of British literary awards

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A list of British literary awards.

Contents

Literature in general

  • Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas..."
  • British Book Awards -- the "Nibbies"
  • Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards)
  • Guardian First Book Award
  • International Rubery Book Award
  • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
  • Ondaatje Prize
  • The Orwell Prize
  • The People's Book Prize
  • Somerset Maugham Award
  • The Warwick Prize for Writing

    • Fiction in general

  • Man Booker Prize
  • Commonwealth Writers Prize
  • Dundee International Book Prize
  • Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
  • Hawthornden Prize
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
  • Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction)
  • Wales Book of the Year
  • WH Smith Literary Award
  • Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize

    • Humour

  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

    • Crime

  • Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
  • CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for a thriller
  • CWA New Blood Dagger, for a debut crime novel
  • Dagger in the Library, for a crime writer, chosen by librarians
  • Gold Dagger, for a crime novel

    • First novel

  • Author's Club First Novel Award
  • Betty Trask Award
  • Ruth Hadden Memorial Award
  • Waverton Good Read Award

    • Historical

  • Walter Scott Prize

    • For young people

  • Branford Boase Award

    • Poetry

  • Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
  • Cholmondeley Award
  • Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes
  • Eric Gregory Award
  • Forward Prizes for Poetry
  • Gaisford Prize
  • Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
  • Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
  • Magic Oxygen Literary Prize
  • Michael Marks Poetry Awards
  • National Poetry Competition
  • Newdigate prize
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
  • Ted Hughes Award
  • T. S. Eliot Prize

    • Speculative fiction

  • Arthur C. Clarke Award
  • BSFA Awards
  • British Fantasy Award
  • Kitschies
  • David Gemmell Legend Awards

    • Non-fiction

  • Alan Ball Local History Awards
  • Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing
  • CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction
  • Duff Cooper Prize
  • Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
  • Samuel Johnson Prize
  • The Royal Society Insight investment Science Book Prize, for outstanding popular science books
  • Whitfield Prize, for history
  • William Hill Sports Book of the Year
  • Wolfson History Prize, for history

    • Other

  • Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)
  • SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK
  • Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book

    • References

    List of British literary awards Wikipedia
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