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 Wikipedia articles.
Icelandic literature
Icelandic Literary Prize
Jnanpith Award
Sahitya Akademi Award
Pampa Award
Saraswati Samman
Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition
Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards
Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award
Irish Book Awards
The Francis MacManus Award
Bialik Prize
Geffen Award
Jerusalem Prize
Sapir Prize
Yitzhak Sadeh Prize
Bagutta Prize
Premio Bancarella
Premio Campiello
Premio Strega
Premio Urania
Viareggio Prize
Flaiano Prize
Akutagawa Prize
Bungei Prize
Dazai Osamu Prize
Edogawa Rampo Prize
Honkaku Mystery Award
Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
Kikuchi Kan Prize (Kan Kikuchi Shō)
Mishima Yukio Prize
Mystery Writers of Japan Award
Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
Noma Prize for Literature
Ōe Kenzaburō Prize
Tanizaki Prize
Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
Yomiuri Prize for Literature
Batty Weber Prize
Servais Prize
Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages
Madan Puraskar
New Zealand literature
Esther Glen Award – for children's literature
Joy Cowley Award – for children's literature
Sir Julius Vogel Award – for science fiction and fantasy
New Zealand Post Book Awards
Ngaio Marsh Award
Margaret Mahy Award
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing – for works in the Hausa language
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
Palanca Award
Philippine National Book Awards
Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
Nike Award
Prémio Camões
Solzhenitsyn Prize
Russian Booker Prize
Pushkin Prize
Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award
Fabula Award
Jenko Award
KONS International Literary Award
Kresnik Award
Levstik Award
Prešeren Award
Prešeren Foundation Award
Rožanc Award
Veronika Award
Vilenica Prize
Alan Paton Award
Alba Bouwer Prize
Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
ATKV Prose Prize
Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
C.P. Hoogenhout Award
Central News Agency Literary Award
David Higham Prize for Fiction
Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
Eugène Marais Prize
Hertzog Prize
Ingrid Jonker Prize
M-Net Literary Awards
Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
Media24 Books Literary Awards
Olive Schreiner Prize
Percy FitzPatrick Award
Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
South African Literary Awards
The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
Thomas Pringle Award
University of Johannesburg Prize
Dong-in Literary Award
Manhae Prize
Yi Sang Literary Award
So-Wol Poetry Prize
Park Kyung-ni Prize
Ho-Am Prize in the Arts
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
Prince of Asturias Awards
Gratiaen Prize
State Literary Award
Augustpriset
De Nios Stora Pris
Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
Solothurner Literaturpreis
Swiss Book Prize
S.E.A.Write Award
Sriburapha Award
Erdal Oz Literature Award
Orhan Kemal Literature Award
Sait Faik Abasıyanık Literature Award
Sedat Simavi Literature Award
Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Literature Award
Shevchenko National Prize since 1961
Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize
Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) – since 1922
Carnegie Medal (UK) – since 1936
Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration – since 1938
Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (Australia) – since 1946
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
Gelett burgess children's book award (USA) – since 2010
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
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan) – since 2001
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (international) – since 2003
Food and drink
Langhe Ceretto Prize (international) – since 1991
Wolfson History Prize – since 1972
Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction – since 2008
Bram Stoker Award – for superior achievement in horror writing, since 1987
Lord Ruthven Award – for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature – since 1989
Military fiction and military history
Colby Award for a first work of fiction or non-fiction – since 1999
Pritzker Military Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing – since 2007
W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction – since 1997
Mystery: crime fiction and detective fiction
Agatha Award
Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
Anthony Award
Arthur Ellis Awards by the Crime Writers of Canada
Ayukawa Tetsuya Award
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 Award – awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize
Left Coast Crime awards
Lefty award
The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery
Macavity Award
Martin Beck Award
Mephisto Prize
Mystery Writers of America awards:
Edgar Award
Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
Mystery Writers of Japan Award
Edogawa Rampo Prize
Shamus Award
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
RITA Award
Speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy)
Hugo Award – since 1955
Nebula Award – since 1965
Ditmar Award (Australia) – since 1969
BSFA award – since 1970
Seiun 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
Paul Harland Prize (Netherlands) – since 1976
Prometheus Award – best Libertarian SF – since 1979
Nihon SF Taisho Award – since 1980
Prix Aurora Award (Canada) – since 1980
Prix Rosny-Aîné (France) – since 1980
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany) – since 1981
Philip K. Dick Award – since 1982
Compton Crook Award – best first time novel in genre in a year, since 1983
Janusz A. Zajdel Award (Poland) – since 1984
Writers of the Future – contest for new authors, since 1985
Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) – since 1986
Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987
Japan Fantasy Novel Award – since 1989
Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand) – since 1989
Urania Award (Italy) – since 1989
SFRA Pioneer Award – best critical essay-length work, since 1990
Tiptree award – since 1991
Chandler Award (Australia) – since 1992
Sidewise Award for Alternate History – since 1995
Aurealis Award (Australia) – since 1995
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service – promotion of SF teaching and study, etc., since 1996
Endeavour Award (Pacific Northwest) – since 1999
Nautilus Award (Poland) – since 2003
WSFA Small Press Award – since 2007
Tähtifantasia Award (Finland) – since 2007
Kitschies (UK) – since 2009
General
William Hill Sports Book of the Year (UK)
British Sports Book Awards (UK)
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (US)
Baseball
CASEY Award (US)
Jerry Malloy Book Prize (US)
Seymour Medal (US)
Dave Moore Award (US)
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.
PEN Translation Prize - awarded annually for a translation from any language into English.
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize - awarded annually for a book-length translation from any language into English.
Rossica Translation Prize - awarded biennially by Academia Rossica to a translation from Russian into English.
National Translation Award - an annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association
Popescu Prize - awarded biennially for a translation of poetry from a European language into English. Awarded by the Poetry Society.
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize - annually awarded to a translation of a poem from any language into English.
Scott Moncrieff Prize - awarded annually for French to English translation.
Arkansas Arabic Translation Award - awarded annually for a notable book-length translation from Arabic into English.
Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation - awarded annually for Arabic to English literary translation.
Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation - awarded for a translation of prose or poetry into English from any other of the South African official languages.
Rossica Young Translators Prize - open to submissions from translators aged under 25, awarded annually for the translation of a passage of contemporary fiction from Russian into English.
Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize - open to submissions from translators aged between 18 and 34, awarded annually, focusing on a different language every year.
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