List of literary awards

This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.

International awards

All nationalities and multiple languages eligible

Awards by language

Arabic

Bengali

Chinese

  • Mao Dun Literature Prize
  • Lu Xun Literary Prize
  • Lao She Literary Award
  • Dream of the Red Chamber Award
  • Shi Nai'an Literary Prize
  • Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
  • Bing Xin Children's Literature Award
  • Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize

English

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
  • Kleist Prize – first awarded in 1912
  • Merano Poetry Prize – established in 1993 for poetry
  • International Literature Award - established in 2009 for international prose translated into German

Gujarati

  • Kumar Suvarna Chandrak
  • Narmad Suvarna Chandrak
  • Premanand Suvarna Chandrak
  • Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
  • Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar
  • Yuva Gaurav Puraskar (conferred to young authors)

Hebrew

Irish

Italian

Kannada

Malayalam

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

Marathi

  • Vinda Karandikar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar

Meitei (Manipuri)

  • Sahitya Akademi Award for Meitei
  • Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Meitei
  • Yuva Puraskar for Meitei

Odia

  • Odisha Sahitya Academy Award

Polish

  • Angelus Award
  • Gdynia Literary Prize
  • Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
  • Kościelski Award
  • Nike Award
  • Paszport Polityki for Literature
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
  • Silesius Poetry Award
  • Śląkfa Award
  • Wisława Szymborska Award

Portuguese

  • Camões Prize
  • Prémio Leya
  • Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature (from 2007 onwards)
  • São Paulo Prize for Literature

Spanish

Tamil

  • Vishnupuram Award

Awards by region

African

  • 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)
  • Nommo Awards
  • Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry
  • Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa

Asian

  • Man Asian Literary Prize
  • DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
  • SAARC Literary Award
  • Kiriyama Prize – for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia; 1996–2008
  • Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Literature Award

Caribbean literature

Commonwealth

European Union

  • European Union Prize for Literature
  • European Book Prize

Nordic

Awards by country

American literature

Australian literature

Austrian literature

Bangladesh literature

Botswana literature

  • Bessie Head Literature Awards

Brazilian literature

  • Prêmio Jabuti
  • Prêmio Machado de Assis
  • São Paulo Prize for Literature

British literature

Bulgarian literature

  • Vick Prize

Canadian literature

  • Arthur Ellis Award
  • Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
  • Booker Prize
  • Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature
  • Canada Reads
  • 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
  • Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
  • Innis-Gérin Medal
  • John Glassco Translation Prize
  • Journey Prize
  • Kobzar Literary Award
  • Lane Anderson 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

Chilean literature

  • Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature

  • Lu Xun Literary Prize
  • Mao Dun Literature Prize
  • Newman Prize for Chinese Literature

Costa Rican literature

Croatian language

Czech literature

  • Magnesia Litera Prize

Dutch literature

  • Libris Literatuur Prijs

Ecuadorian literature

  • Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize
  • Premio Eugenio Espejo

Estonian literature

  • Friedebert Tuglas short story award
  • Juhan Smuul literary award

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
  • Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
  • Prix Alain-Fournier
  • Prix Décembre
  • Prix des Deux-Magots
  • Prix Femina
  • Prix Fénéon
  • Prix de Flore
  • Prix du roman Fnac
  • Prix Goncourt
  • Prix Interallié
  • Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
  • Prix Médicis
  • Prix Mystère de la critique
  • Prix de la Page 112
  • Prix du Quai des Orfèvres
  • Prix Renaudot
  • Candide Preis (the only German-French Literary award)

Georgian literature

  • Shota Rustaveli State Prize

German literature

Hungarian literature

  • Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – for poets and translators; since 1997
  • Baumgarten Prize
  • Kossuth Prize

Icelandic literature

  • Icelandic Literary Prize

Indian literature

Indonesian literature

  • Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition

Iranian literature

  • Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards
  • Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award

Irish literature

Israeli literature

Italian literature

Japanese literature

  • 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
  • Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001
  • Shimase Love Literature Prize
  • Tanizaki Prize
  • Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
  • Yomiuri Prize for Literature

Luxembourgian literature

  • Batty Weber Prize
  • Servais Prize

Malaysian literature

  • Malaysia Premier's Literary Award
  • Malaysian National Laureate

Mexican literature

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

Nepalese Literature

  • 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
  • Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
  • Ngaio Marsh Award
  • Margaret Mahy Award
  • Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Nigerian literature

Norwegian literature

Philippine literature

  • Palanca Award
  • Philippine National Book Awards

Polish literature

  • Angelus Award
  • Found in Translation Award
  • Gdynia Literary Prize
  • Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
  • Kościelski Award
  • Nautilus Award
  • Nike Award
  • Paszport Polityki for Literature
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
  • Silesius Poetry Award
  • Śląkfa Award
  • Wisława Szymborska Award

Portuguese literature

Russian literature

  • Solzhenitsyn Prize
  • Russian Booker Prize
  • Pushkin Prize
  • Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

Serbian literature

Singaporean literature

  • Epigram Books Fiction Prize
  • Singapore Literature Prize

Slovene literature

South African literature

  • 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
  • Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards
  • The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
  • Thomas Pringle Award
  • University of Johannesburg Prize
  • W.A Hofmeyr Prize

South Korean literature

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

Spanish literature

Sri Lankan literature

  • Gratiaen Prize
  • State Literary Award

Swedish literature

Swiss literature

  • Max Frisch Prize
  • Solothurner Literaturpreis
  • Swiss Book Prize

Thai literature

  • S.E.A.Write Award
  • Sriburapha Award

Turkish literature

  • Erdal Oz Literature Award
  • Sedat Simavi Literature Award

Ukrainian literature

Venezuelan literature

  • Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize

Zimbabwean literature

  • National Arts Merit Awards

Awards by genres

Children's literature

Food and drink

  • Langhe Ceretto Prize (international) – since 1991

History

  • Cundill History Prize for historical non-fiction – since 2008
  • Duff Cooper Prize — since 1956
  • Wolfson History Prize – since 1972

Horror fiction

  • Bram Stoker Award – for superior achievement in horror writing, since 1987
  • Shirley Jackson Award – for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic, since 2007.
  • 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 nonfiction – 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

Romance fiction

Speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

See also: List of science fiction awards, Category:Science fiction awards, and Category:Fantasy awards

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)
  • 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.

Awards by identity

These awards include those given to authors of a specific identity or community, or works centering related characters or themes.

Disability

  • Barbellion Prize (UK) – English works by writers with chronic illness or disability
  • Kenny Fries Disabled Writer Literary Award (US) – disabled or deaf writers
  • Disability History Association's Outstanding Publication Award (US) – works about disability history
  • Schneider Family Book Award (US) – children's and YA works portraying disability

Gender

  • Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Canada, US) – works by women or non-binary authors
  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (UK) – works about English literature, written by women
  • Barbara Jefferis Award (Australia) – works that represent women or girls positively, by Australian writers
  • Chommanard Book Prize (Thailand) – works by women from ASEAN countries or China or Taiwan
  • Davitt Award (Australia) – crime fiction by Australian women
  • Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature (US) – works about transgender people and themes
  • Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (US) – works by trans and gender-nonconforming writers
  • Lulu Awards (US) – women in comics and works recognizing comics by or for women
  • Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (US) – works by American women
  • Marian Engel Award (Canada) – Canadian women novelists
  • Murasaki Shikibu Prize (Japan) – Japanese works by women
  • Otherwise Award (US) – works expanding the concept of gender
  • Nita Kibble Literary Award (Australia) – works by Australian women
  • Pat Lowther Award (Canada) – poetry books by women and non-binary writers
  • Rapallo Carige Prize (Italy) – works by emerging women writers
  • Roswitha Prize (Germany) – women writers of German works
  • Sense of Gender Awards (Japan) – works expanding the concept of gender
  • SI Leeds Literary Prize (UK) – unpublished works by UK Black and Asian women and womxn
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico) – Spanish works by women
  • Stella Prize (Australia) – works by Australian women and non-binary writers
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (US, UK) – English plays by women+ writers
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (UK) – works by women that have been translated into English
  • Women's Prize for Fiction (UK) – English novels by women
  • Women's Prize for Non-Fiction (UK) – English works by women

LGBTQ+

  • Alice B Readers Awards (US) – writers of lesbian fiction
  • Bisexual Book Awards (US) – works of bisexual literature
  • Blue Metropolis Violet Prize (Canada) – established LGBTQ writers
  • Dayne Ogilvie Prize (Canada) – emerging LGBTQ writers
  • Gaylactic Spectrum Awards – (US) – works of speculative fiction by North American authors
  • Goldie Awards (US) – works of sapphic literature
  • Lambda Literary Awards (US) – English works on LGBTQ themes
  • Polari Prize (UK) – works on LGBTQ themes by authors from the UK and Ireland
  • Publishing Triangle Awards (US) – English works on LGBTQ themes
  • Rainbow Awards (India) – LGBTQ works by Indian authors
  • Ruth Benedict Prize (US) – anthropology works on LGBT topics
  • Stonewall Book Awards (US) – originally the Gay Book Award

Miscellaneous

Awards for literary translation

  • Gregory Kolovakos Award – PEN America : U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic whose work ... extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience
  • 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 Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award
  • National Translation Award – 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.
  • 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, focusing on a different language every year.[4]
  • International Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
  • Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize – since 1996
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
  • Gradam de Bhaldraithe – annual award for literature translated into Irish from another language

Awards for literary criticism

See also

  • List of poetry awards
  • List of comics awards
  • List of Australian literary awards
  • List of the world's richest literary prizes

References

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  2. ^ "ALTA". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  3. ^ "Rossica Young Translators Award". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  4. ^ "Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize". Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  5. ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award" Archived 2013-04-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Malayalam). Kerala Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Literary Awards" Archived 2012-06-18 at the Wayback Machine. Government of Kerala. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
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