List of literary awards
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This is a list of literary awards from around the world:
[edit] Worldwide in scope
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's and youth literature.
[edit] International awards of limited scope
[edit] British Commonwealth and Ireland
- Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
[edit] English language
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for English-language women playwrights
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] American literature
See also: List of American literary awards
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- 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
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Bancroft Prize
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Frost Medal
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hopwood Award
- International Library of Poetry (for Amateur Poetry)
- James Laughlin Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Poetry Series
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- Poets' Prize
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- Whiting Writers' Award
[edit] Australian literature
[edit] Austrian literature
[edit] Bangladeshi literature
- Bangla Academy Award
- Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroskar
[edit] British literature
See also: List of British literary awards
- Booker Prize
- British Book Awards -- the "Nibbies"
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Forward Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Newdigate prize
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- Samuel Johnson Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Whitbread Awards
[edit] Canadian literature
- Booker Prize
- Canadian Poets Award
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Geoffrey Bilson Award
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Giller Prize
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- Governor General's Award
- Marian Engel Award
- Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
- Norma Fleck Award
- Pat Lowther Award
- Stephen Leacock Award
- Trillium Award
- Wright Awards
[edit] Central European literature
- Vilenica prize
- Złote Pióro "Wolnomularza Polskiego" (Gold Pen of "Polish Freemason")
[edit] Chilean literature
- Chilean National Prize for Literature
[edit] Chinese literature
- Maodun Prize for Literature
- Caoyu Prize for Drama
- Laoshe Prize for Literature
- Fengmu Prize for Literature
[edit] Finnish literature
- Finlandia Prize for Literature
[edit] French literature
- Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
- Prix Décembre
- Prix des Deux-Magots
- Prix Femina
- Prix Goncourt
- Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
- Prix Médicis
- Prix Renaudot
[edit] Georgian literature
- Shota Rustaveli State Prize
- Saba Prize
[edit] German literature
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
- Georg Büchner Prize
- Goethe Prize
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize
- Heinrich Heine Prize
- Kassel Literary Prize
- Kleist Prize
- Heinrich Mann Prize
- Hermann Kesten Medal
- Nelly Sachs Prize
- Roswitha Prize
- Schiller Prize
- Solothurner Literaturpreis
- Toucan Prize
[edit] Hebrew literature
- Bialik Prize
- Sapir Prize
- Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
- Ze'ev Prize (for children's literature)
[edit] Hungarian literature
- Attila József Prize
- Baumgarten Prize
- Kossuth Prize
[edit] Indian literature
- Jnanpith Award
- Kalidas samman
- Pampa Award
- Sahitya Akademi Award
[edit] Irish literature
[edit] Italian literature
[edit] Japanese literature
- Akutagawa Prize
- Dazai Osamu Prize
- Ito Sei Prize for Literature
- Kawabata Yasunari Prize
- Mishima Yukio Prize
- Naoki Prize
- Noma Prize for Literature
- Oda Sakunosuke Prize
- Subaru Prize for Literature
- Tanizaki Prize
- Women's Literature Prize
- Yokomitsu Prize
- Yomiuri Prize for Literature
[edit] Philippine literature
[edit] Polish literature
[edit] Portuguese literature
[edit] Slovenian literature
- Presernova nagrada
[edit] Spanish literature
[edit] Swedish literature
- Aniarapriset -- awarded by the Swedish Library Association.
- Augustpriset
- C S Lewis-priset
- De Nios Stora Pris
- Lilla Augustpriset for children's literature
- Piratenpriset
- Svenska Akademins nordiska pris
[edit] Science fiction and fantasy
- (see also List of science fiction awards)
- Hugo Award
- Nebula Award
- Sidewise Award for Alternate History
- Tiptree award
- BSFA award
- Prix Apollo
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Writers of the Future -- contest for new authors
- Illustrators of the Future -- contest for new illustrators
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction
- Philip K. Dick Memorial Award
- Compton Crook Award--Best first time novel in Genera in a year.
- Prometheus Award -- best Libertarian SF
- Janusz A. Zajdel Award -- award given by Polish fandom
- World Fantasy Award
- SFRA Pioneer Award -- best critical essay length work
- Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service -- promotion of SF teaching and study, etc.
[edit] Children's literature
- Newbery Medal (USA)
- Newbery Honor (USA)
- Caldecott Medal (USA)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (USA)
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA)
- Governor General's Award (Canada)
- Carnegie Medal (UK)
- Children's Laureate (UK)
- Guardian Award (UK)
- Kate Greenaway Medal (UK)
- Nestle Smarties Book Prize (UK)
- Angus Book Award (UK)
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (International)
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (International)
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Pura Belpré Award
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award
- Michael L. Printz Award
- Robert F. Sibert Award
