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.
Nobel Prize in Literature - since 1901
Prix Femina - since 1904
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings - since 1966
Neustadt International Prize for Literature - since 1970
America Award - since 1994
Franz Kafka Prize - since 2001
Man Booker International Prize - since 2005
The Warwick Prize for Writing - since 2008
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature - since 2009
International Rubery Book Award - since 2010
KONS International Literary Award - since 2011
Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes - since 2013
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
Candide Preis – since 1995
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006
Goethe Prize – since 1927
Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature – since 1956
International Botev Prize – since 1972
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
Jerusalem Prize – since 1963
Kiriyama Prize – since 1996
Montreal International Poetry Prize – since 2011
NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature – since 2003
Ovid Prize – since 2002
Paris Literary Prize – since 2010
Prince of Asturias Awards – since 1981
Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa – since 2007
Sydney Taylor Book Award – for Jewish children's and teen literature, since 1968
Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature
International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Rabindra Puraskar
Bankim Puraskar
Ananda Puraskar
Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
Bangla Academy Award
Bing Xin Children's Literature Award
Dream of the Red Chamber Award
Lu Xun Literary Prize
Mao Dun Literature Prize
Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
Georg Büchner Prize – for the overall literary oeuvre
Sigmund Freud Prize – for scientific prose
German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year
Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German
Kleist Prize – (first awarded in 1912)
Bialik Prize
Sapir Prize
Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
Edasseri Award
Ezhuthachan Puraskaram
Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
Muttathu Varkey Award
Odakkuzhal Award
Padmarajan Award
Vallathol Award
Vayalar Award
Odisha Sahitya Academy Award
Camões Prize
Prémio Leya
Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature (from 2007 onwards)
Prémio Literário José Saramago
São Paulo Prize for Literature
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
Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize
Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation
Brunel University African Poetry Prize
Caine Prize
Etisalat Prize for Literature
Golden Baobab Prize
Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
Lotus Prize for Literature (discontinued)
Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (discontinued)
Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Man Asian Literary Prize
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
SAARC Literary Award
Casa de las Américas Prize
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Man Booker Prize - winners and shortlisted authors
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (discontinued)
Encore Award - since 1990
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009
Nordic Council's Literature Prize
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
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
Arkansas Arabic Translation 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
Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
The Best American Poetry series
Best Translated Book Award
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Bollingen Prize
Bram Stoker Award
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Christopher Hewitt Award
Colorado Book Award
The Dana Award
Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
Dos Passos Prize
Edgar Allan Poe Award
Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Fabri Literary Prize
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Frost Medal
Goldsmith Book Prize
Gregory Kolovakos Award
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
Hopwood Award
Hugo Award
James Duval Phelan Award
James Jones First Novel Award
James Laughlin Award
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
Joseph Henry Jackson Award
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Lambda Literary Award
Lannan Literary Awards
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
Minnesota Book Award
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
National Outdoor Book Award
National Poetry Series
National Translation Award
Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
Nautilus Book Awards
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 Award for Poetry in Translation
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
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)
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
PEN Translation Fund Grants
Poets' Prize
Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology
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
Scott Moncrieff Prize
Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
Short Story Award
Spur Award
St. Francis College Literary Prize
St. Louis Literary Award
Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
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 Awards
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Aurealis Award awarded annually for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35
Miles Franklin Award for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’
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
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
Erich Fried Prize
Franz Kafka Prize
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
Anton Wildgans Prize
Bangla Academy Award
Bessie Head Literature Awards
Premio Jabuti
Premio Machado de Assis
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Author's Club First Novel Award
Betty Trask Award
Booker Prize
British Book Awards – the "Nibbies"
Chancellor's Gold Medal
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Dundee International Book Prize
Duff Cooper Prize
Forward Prize
Hawthornden Prize
Hessell-Tiltman Prize
International Rubery Book Award
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – for biography
James Tait Black Memorial Prize – for fiction
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Meyer-Whitworth Award
Newdigate prize
Orange Prize for Fiction
Orwell Prize
Samuel Johnson Prize
SI Leeds Literary Prize
Somerset Maugham Award
T. S. Eliot Prize
Waverton Good Read Award
Costa Book Awards
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.
Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK.
Vick Prize
Arthur Ellis Award
Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
Booker Prize
Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature
Canadian Jewish Book Awards
Carol Bolt Award
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Dayne Ogilvie Prize
Doug Wright Award
Edna Staebler Award
Geoffrey Bilson Award
Gerald Lampert Award
Griffin Poetry Prize
Governor General's Award
Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition
Innis-Gérin Medal
John Glassco Translation Prize
Journey Prize
Kobzar Literary Award
Lorne Pierce Medal
McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
Norma Fleck Award
Pat Lowther Award
Percy Janes First Novel Award
Prix Anne-Hébert
Prix Athanase-David
Prix du Cercle du livre de France
Prix Ringuet
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
ReLit Awards
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Ryerson Fiction Award (discontinued)
Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Shaughnessy Cohen Award
Stephen Leacock Award
Sunburst Award
TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
Thomas Head Raddall Award
Trillium Award
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Winterset Award
Wright Awards
Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Chilean National Prize for Literature
Lu Xun Literary Prize
Mao Dun Literature Prize
Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
Premio Editorial Costa Rica
Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani
Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
Nagrada Matice Hrvatske
Magnesia Litera Prize
Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize
Premio Eugenio Espejo
Finlandia Prize for literature
Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
Runeberg Prize for literature
Thanks for the Book Award for 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 du roman Fnac
Prix Goncourt
Prix Interallié
Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
Prix Médicis
Prix Renaudot
Candide Preis (the only one German-French Literary award)
Shota Rustaveli State Prize
Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
Candide Preis – German-French literary award in memory of Voltaire's novella Candide
Carl Zuckmayer Medal, an annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
German Book Prize – awarded annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair for the best German language novel of the year
Georg Büchner Prize – awarded annually by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in memory of Georg Büchner
Goethe Prize – awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hanseatic Goethe Prize
Heinrich Heine Prize
Hans Fallada Prize – biennial literary prize in memory of Hans Fallada
Heinrich Mann Prize
Hermann Kesten Medal
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
Kassel Literary Prize
Kleist Prize
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis – annual science fiction award in memory of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
Nelly Sachs Prize
Roswitha Prize
Schiller Memorial Prize
Toucan Prize
Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award
Baumgarten Prize
Kossuth Prize
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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