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This is a list of literary awards from around the world:

Contents 1 Worldwide in scope 2 International awards of limited scope 2.1 British Commonwealth and Ireland 2.2 English language 2.3 Portuguese language 2.4 Spanish language 2.5 Dutch language 2.6 Scandanavian authors 3 American literature 4 Australian literature 5 Austrian literature 6 Bangladeshi literature 7 British literature 8 Canadian literature 9 Central and Eastern European literature 10 Chilean literature 11 Chinese literature 12 Czech Literature 13 Finnish literature 14 French literature 15 Georgian literature 16 German literature 17 Hebrew literature 18 Hungarian literature 19 Icelandic literature 20 Indian literature 21 Irish literature 22 Italian literature 23 Japanese literature 24 Luxembourgian literature 25 Mexican literature 26 New Zealand literature 27 Philippine literature 28 Polish literature 29 Portuguese literature 30 Slovenian literature 31 South African Literature 32 Spanish literature 33 Swedish literature 34 Science fiction and fantasy 35 Children\'s literature 36 See also 37 External links

Worldwide in scope

• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Neustadt International Prize for Literature
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children\'s and youth literature.
• Franz Kafka Prize
• The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
• Jerusalem Prize

International awards of limited scope

British Commonwealth and Ireland

• Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
• Commonwealth Writers\' Prize
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

English language

• Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for English-language women playwrights

Portuguese language

• Camões Prize

Spanish language

• Miguel de Cervantes Prize
• Rómulo Gallegos Prize
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize - female authors

Dutch language

• Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
• Constantijn Huygens Prize
• Gouden Griffel for children\'s literature (translated works can win a Zilveren Griffel)
• Multatuliprijs
• P. C. Hooft Award
• Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren

Scandanavian authors

• Nordic Council\'s Literature Prize

American literature

See also: Category: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
• American Book Award
• Arthur Rense Prize
• Bancroft Prize
• The Best American Poetry series
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
• Bollingen Prize
• Edgar Allan Poe Award
• Fabri Literary Prize
• Flannery O\'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Frost Medal
• Goldsmith Book Prize
• Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
• Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
• Hopwood Award
• James Duval Phelan Award
• James Laughlin Award
• Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize
• Joseph Henry Jackson Award
• Kate Tufts Discovery Award
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
• Lambda Literary Award
• Lannan Literary Awards
• Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
• Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
• National Poetry Series
• New Mexico Governor\'s Award for Excellence in the Arts
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize
• O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
• PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
• Poets\' Prize
• Pulitzer Prize for
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • General Non-Fiction
• Pushcart Prize
• Quill Awards
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
• Spur Award
• Stonewall Book Award
• Wallace Stevens Award
• Walt Whitman Award
• Whiting Writers\' Award

Australian literature

Main article: List of Australian literary awards

• Aurealis Award
• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
• Miles Franklin Award
• 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
• Floriana Prize
• Förderungspreis für Literatur
• Erich Fried Prize
• Alfred Gesswein Prize
• Franz Kafka Prize
• Kolik Literary Prize
• Theodor Kramer Prize for literature in exile
• Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
• Manuskripte Prize
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• Pannonia Literary Prize
• Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
• Peter Rosegger Prize
• Manès-Sperber-Preis für Literatur
• Alexander Sacher-Masoch Prize
• Literary Prize Steyr
• Adalbert Stifter Prize
• Otto Stoessl Prize
• Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry
• Wiener Werkstadtpreis
• Anton Wildgans Prize

Bangladeshi literature

• Bangla Academy Award
• Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroskar

British literature

Main article: List of British literary awards

• Author\'s Club First Novel Award
• Betty Trask Award
• Booker Prize
• British Book Awards -- the "Nibbies"
• Commonwealth Writers Prize
• Duff Cooper Prize
• Forward Prize
• Hawthornden Prize
• Hessell-Tiltman Prize
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Newdigate prize
• Orange Prize for Fiction
• The Orwell Prize
• Samuel Johnson Prize
• Somerset Maugham Award
• T. S. Eliot Prize
• Waverton Good Read Award
• Whitbread Awards

Canadian literature

• Arthur Ellis Award
• 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

Central and Eastern European literature

• The Austrian Grand Prize for East European Literature
• Vilenica prize
• Angelus prize
• Złote Pióro "Wolnomularza Polskiego" (Gold Pen of "Polish Freemason")

Chilean literature

• Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature

• Maodun Prize for Literature
• Caoyu Prize for Drama
• Laoshi Prize for Literature
• Fengmu Prize for Literature

Czech Literature

• Jaroslav Seifert Prize
• Magnesia Litera Prize
• Jiří Orten Prize

Finnish literature

• Finlandia Prize for literature
• Thanks for the Book Award for literature

French literature

• Grand prix du roman de l\'Académie française
• Prix Décembre
• Prix de Flore
• Prix des Deux-Magots
• Prix Femina
• Prix Goncourt
• Prix Interallié
• Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
• Prix Médicis
• Prix Renaudot

Georgian literature

• Shota Rustaveli State Prize
• Saba Prize

German literature

• German Book Prize
• Price of the Leipzig Book Fair
• 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

Hebrew literature

• Bialik Prize
• Sapir Prize
• Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
• Ze\'ev Prize (for children\'s literature)

Hungarian literature

• Attila József Prize
• Baumgarten Prize
• Kossuth Prize

Icelandic literature

• Icelandic Literary Prize

Indian literature

• Hutch Crossword Book Award
• Jnanpith Award
• Kalidas samman
• Pampa Award
• Sahitya Akademi Award

Irish literature

• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Italian literature

• Bagutta Prize
• Premio Bancarella
• Premio Campiello
• Premio Strega
• Premio Urania
• Viareggio Prize

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

Luxembourgian literature

• Batty Weber Prize
• Servais Prize

Mexican literature

• Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
• Xavier Villaurrutia Award

New Zealand literature

• Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Philippine literature

• Palanca Award

Polish literature

• Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
• Nike Award
• Nagroda Literacka Gdynia

Portuguese literature

• Prémio Camões

Slovenian literature

• Prešernova nagrada
• Kresnik
• Rožančeva nagrada

South African Literature

• Alba Bouwer Prize
• Alan Paton Award
• Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
• Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
• Hertzog Prize
• M-Net Literary Awards
• The Sunday Times Fiction Prize

Spanish literature

• Miguel de Cervantes Prize
• Premio Nadal
• Premio Planeta
• Rómulo Gallegos Prize
• Premio Nacional de Literatura
• Premio Alfaguara
• Premi Sant Jordi
• Premio Azorín
• Premio Primavera de Novela
• Premio Nacional de Narrativa
• Premio Fernando Lara de Novela
• Premio de la Crítica
• Premio Fastenrath

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

Science fiction and fantasy

Main article: 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 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.

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 for illustration (UK)
• Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK)
• Nestle Smarties Book Prize (UK)
• Angus Book Award (UK)
• Tir na n-Og Awards (UK - Wales)
• Bisto Book of the Year Awards (Ireland)
• The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland)
• Hans Christian Andersen Award (International)
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (International)
• Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA)
• Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA)
• Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA)
• Robert F. Sibert Award for informational books (USA)
• Jane Addams Children\'s Book Award
• Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans

See also

• List of poetry awards
• List of comics awards

External links

• Award Annals: ranked lists of books that received literary award honors
• Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years
• Author Ranking by Literary Awards: ranked lists of authors that received prominent literary award honors
• Book Prize Information: A source of information on book prizes and prizewinning books.

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