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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 Wikipedia articles.

International awards

All nationalities eligible (in chronological order)

Nobel Prize in Literature - since 1901
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
International Rubery Book Award - since 2010
KONS International Literary Award - since 2011
Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes - since 2013

Other

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
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009
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

Awards by language

Arabic

Bengali

Rabindra Puraskar
Bankim Puraskar
Ananda Puraskar
Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
Bangla Academy Award

Chinese

German

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

Hebrew

Awards by region

African

Asian

Commonwealth

Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Encore Award - since 1990
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

European Union

European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009

Nordic

Nordic Council's Literature Prize

Awards by country

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
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
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Christopher Hewitt Award
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
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
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 Writers' Award
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize

Australian literature

See also: List of Australian literary awards and Category:Australian literary awards

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

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
São Paulo Prize for Literature

British literature

See also: List of British literary awards and Category:British literary awards

Author's Club First Novel Award
Betty Trask Award
Booker Prize
British Book Awards – the "Nibbies"
Chancellor's Gold Medal
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
The Orwell Prize
Samuel Johnson 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.

Bulgarian literature

Vick Prize

Canadian literature

Arthur Ellis Award
Booker Prize
Canadian Jewish Book Awards
Commonwealth Writers Prize
Dayne Ogilvie Prize
Edna Staebler Award
Geoffrey Bilson Award
Gerald Lampert Award
Griffin Poetry Prize
Governor General's Award
Journey Prize
Lorne Pierce Medal
Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
Norma Fleck Award
Pat Lowther Award
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
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
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 literature

Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature

Costa Rican literature

Premio Editorial Costa Rica

Croatian language

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

Czech literature

See also: List of Czech literary awards and Category:Czech literary awards

Magnesia Litera Prize

Ecuadorian literature

Finnish literature

Finlandia Prize for literature
Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
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
Candide Preis (the only one German-French Literary award)

Georgian literature

Shota Rustaveli State Prize

German literature

Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
Candide Preis, German-French literary award in memoriam of Voltaire's novella Candide
Carl Zuckmayer Medal, an annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memoriam 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 memoriam of Georg Büchner
Goethe Prize, awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memoriam of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hanseatic Goethe Prize
Heinrich Heine Prize
Hans Fallada Prize, a biennial literary prize in memoriam of Hans Fallada
Heinrich Mann Prize
Hermann Kesten Medal
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
Kassel Literary Prize
Kleist Prize
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, an annual science fiction award in memoriam of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
Nelly Sachs Prize
Roswitha Prize
Schiller Memorial Prize
Toucan Prize

Hungarian literature

Icelandic literature

Icelandic Literary Prize

Indian literature

Indonesian literature

Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition

Iranian literature

Irish literature

Irish Book Awards
The Francis MacManus Award

Israeli literature

Italian literature

Japanese literature

Akutagawa Prize
Bungei 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)
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

Luxembourgian literature

Mexican literature

Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages

Nepalese Literature

Madan Puraskar

New Zealand literature

See also: List of New Zealand literary awards and Category:New Zealand literary awards

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
Margaret Mahy Award

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Nigerian literature

Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing – for works in the Hausa language

Norwegian literature

Philippine literature

Palanca Award
Philippine National Book Awards

Polish literature

Portuguese literature

Prémio Camões

Russian literature

Slovene literature

South African literature

South Korean literature

Dong-in Literary Award
Manhae Prize
Yi Sang Literary Award
So-Wol Poetry Prize
Park Kyung-ni Prize
Ho-Am Prize in the Arts

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
Prince of Asturias Awards

Sri Lanka

Swedish literature

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

Swiss literature

Thai literature

S.E.A.Write Award
Sriburapha 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

Venezuelan literature

Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize

Awards by 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
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

History

Wolfson History Prize – since 1972
Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction – since 2008

Horror fiction

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 Grand Prize – 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 Award
Shamus Award
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 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

Sports

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)

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.

Awards for Literary Translation

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^[1] to a translation from Russian into English.
National Translation Award - an annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association^[2]
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.^[3]
Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize - open to submissions from translators aged between 18 and 34, awarded annually focussing on a different language every year.^[4]

References

External links

Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years
Graphical Author and Novel Ranking by Literary Awards: graphical ranking of authors and novels that received prominent literary award honors (tabs across the top)
African Literary Awards Database, Indiana University