List of literary awards

All nationalities and multiple languages eligible • Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 • Hugo Award – since 1953 • NIN Award − since 1954 • Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966 • Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970 • International Botev Prize – since 1972 • Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978 • America Award – since 1994 • Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997 • Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001 • Ovid Prize – since 2002 • Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 • European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009 • Jan Michalski Prize – since 2009 • The Paris Literary Prize – since 2010 • KONS International Literary Award – since 2011 • Grand Prix of Literary Associations (English, French, and Spanish) – since 2013 • Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award – since 2013 • Europese Literatuurprijs (European Literature Award) – since 2011 • Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – since 2003 • AATSEEL Book Awards – since 2000 ==Awards by language==

Arabic • Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature • International Prize for Arabic Fiction • Katara Prize for Arabic Novel • King Faisal International Prize for Arabic language and literature • Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature • Sheikh Zayed Book Award Bengali • Rabindra Puraskar • Bankim Puraskar • Ananda Puraskar • Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers • Bangla Academy Award 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 • International Dublin Literary Award • Goldsmiths Prize • Next Generation Indie Book Awards • Booker Prize • The Warwick Prize for Writing • International Rubery Book Award • Montreal International Poetry Prize • Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes • Caine Prize • Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize • International Booker Prize • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation • ARA Historical Novel Prize 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 • Bialik Prize • Sapir Prize • Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation) Irish • Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin • Gradam Réics Carló • Gradam de Bhaldraithe • Irish Book Awards – since 2018 Italian • Crotone Prize • Strega Prize • Premio Campiello • Premio Bancarella • Bagutta Prize • Urania award (Science Fiction) Kannada • Rashtrakavi • Nrupatunga Award • Kanaka Shree • Pampa Award Malayalam • Edasseri Award • Ezhuthachan Puraskaram • Kerala Sahitya Academy Award • Muttathu Varkey Award • Odakkuzhal Award • Padmarajan Award • Vallathol Award • Vayalar Award 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 • 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 – since 2007 • Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize 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 • Casa de las Américas Prize • OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Commonwealth • Booker Prize – winners and shortlisted authors • Commonwealth Short Story Prize • Commonwealth Writers' Prize (discontinued) • Encore Award – since 1990 • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize European Union • European Union Prize for Literature • European Book Prize Nordic • Nordic Council's Literature Prize • Prisma ==Awards by country==

===American literature=== • 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 • Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction • Arab American Book Award • Arthur Rense Prize • Asian American Literary Awards • Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature • Bancroft Prize • Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation • The Best American Poetry • Best Translated Book Award • Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry • Bollingen Prize • Bram Stoker Award • Carter G. Woodson Book Award • Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • Christopher Hewitt Award • Colorado Book Award • Dana Award • Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards • Dos Passos Prize • Drue Heinz Literature Prize • Edgar Allan Poe Awards • Edward Lewis Wallant Award • Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence • Fabri Literary Prize • Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction • Frost Medal • Goldsmith Book Prize • Gotham Book Prize • Gregory Kolovakos Award • Harold Morton Landon Translation Award • Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize • 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 • Jackson Poetry Prize • The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award • Joseph Henry Jackson Award • Kate Tufts Discovery Award • Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award • Lambda Literary Award – for LGBTQ literature • 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 • Nebula Award for Science Fiction • Newbery Medal • The New Criterion Poetry Prize • O. Henry Awards (for short stories) • Oregon Book Award • 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/Heim Translation Fund Grants • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • 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 • Poets' Prize • Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers • Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology • Publishing Triangle's awards – for LGBTQ literature • Pulitzer Prize for • History • Fiction • Poetry • Drama • General Nonfiction • Pushcart Prize • Quill Awards • Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards • RUSA awards • Robert Olen Butler Prize • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize • Scott Moncrieff Prize • Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award • Short Story Award • Sophie Brody Award • Spur Award • St. Francis College Literary Prize • St. Louis Literary Award • Stone Award for Literary Achievement • Stonewall Book Award – for LGBTQ literature • 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 ===Australian literature=== • ACT Book of the Year • 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 • Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards • 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 • Prime Minister's Literary Awards • Queensland Premier's Literary Awards • South Australian Literary Awards • Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes • Victorian Premier's Literary Awards • Western Australian Premier's Book Awards • • • • ===Austrian literature=== • Ingeborg Bachmann Prize • Feldkircher Lyrikpreis • Erich Fried Prize • Franz Kafka Prize • Austrian State Prize for European Literature • Anton Wildgans Prize ===Bangladesh literature=== • Bangla Academy Award ===Botswana literature=== • Bessie Head Literature Awards ===Brazilian literature=== • Prêmio Jabuti • Prêmio Machado de Assis • São Paulo Prize for Literature ===British literature=== • Authors' Club Best First Novel Award • Baillie Gifford Prize • Betty Trask Prize and Awards • 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 Prizes for Poetry • Hawthornden Prize • International Booker Prize • International Rubery Book Award • James Tait Black Memorial Prize • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize • Meyer-Whitworth Award • Newdigate Prize • Orwell Prize • PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize • SI Leeds Literary Prize • Somerset Maugham Award • T. S. Eliot Prize • Waverton Good Read Award • Women's Prize for Fiction • Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • Costa Book Awards (discontinued in 2021) • Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author 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 • 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=== • Premio Editorial Costa Rica === Croatian language === • Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani • Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski • Nagrada Matice Hrvatske === 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=== • Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben • Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis • Candide Preis – German-French literary award in memory of Voltaire's novella Candide – since 1995 • Carl Zuckmayer Medal – annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer • Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis • Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin • 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; since 1927 • Hanseatic Goethe Prize • Heinrich Heine Prize • Hermann-Hesse-Preis • 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 • Merck Kakehashi Literature Prize • Nelly Sachs Prize • Roswitha Prize • Schiller Memorial Prize • Toucan Prize ===Hungarian literature=== • Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – for poets and translators; since 1997 • Baumgarten Prize • Kossuth Prize ===Icelandic literature=== • Icelandic Literary Prize ===Indian literature=== • Jnanpith Award • Sahitya Akademi Award • Pampa Award • Saraswati Samman • Kalaimamani Award • Yuva Puraskar (conferred to young authors) • Vinda Karandikar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar • Jibanananda Das Award • Tagore Award • Assam Valley Literary Award • All India Poetry Prize ===Indonesian literature=== • Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition ===Iranian literature=== • Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards • Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award ===Irish literature=== • Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin • Gradam Réics Carló • Gradam de Bhaldraithe • Irish Book Awards • The Francis MacManus Award ===Israeli literature=== • Bialik Prize • Geffen Award • Jerusalem Prize – since 1963 • Sapir Prize • Yitzhak Sadeh Prize ===Italian literature=== • Bagutta Prize • Premio Bancarella • Premio Campiello • Premio Strega • Premio Urania • Viareggio Prize • Flaiano Prize ===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=== • Nigeria Prize for Literature • Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa • 9mobile Prize for Literature • Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing – for works in the Hausa language ===Norwegian literature=== • 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 ===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=== • Prémio Camões ===Russian literature=== • Solzhenitsyn Prize • Russian Booker Prize • Pushkin Prize • Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award ===Serbian literature=== • Isidora Sekulić Award • NIN Award ===Singaporean literature=== • Epigram Books Fiction Prize • Singapore Literature Prize ===Slovene literature=== • Fabula Award • Jenko Award • KONS International Literary Award • Kresnik Award • Levstik Award • Prešeren Award • Prešeren Foundation Award • Rožanc Award • Veronika Award • Vilenica Prize ===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=== • 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 – since 1981 ===Sri Lankan literature=== • Gratiaen Prize • State Literary Award ===Swedish literature=== • Augustpriset • De Nios Stora Pris • Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy ===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 • Shevchenko National Prize – since 1961 Venezuelan literature • Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize Zimbabwean literature • National Arts Merit Awards ==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 • Children's Literature Legacy Award (USA) – since 1954, formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal • Hans Christian Andersen Award (international) – since 1956 • Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) – since 1956 • Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany/international) – since 1956 • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957 • Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Netherlands) – since 1964 • Guardian Award (UK) – since 1967 • Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968 • 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 • KPMG Children's Books Ireland 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 (USA) • Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan) – since 2001 • Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (international) – since 2003 • NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature – since 2003 • Gradam Réics Carló – for children's literature in the Irish language 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=== • 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 • Davitt 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 • Ned Kelly Awards • Shamus Award • Staunch Book Prize • Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award === Romance fiction === • RITA Award • Rona 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 • Nommo Awards – since 2016 • Ignyte Awards – since 2020 ===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==

• Goodreads Choice Awards ==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 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 • 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. • Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize – open to submissions from translators aged between 18 and 34, awarded annually, focusing on a different language every year. • 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==

• Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing – awarded annually for literary criticism as one of the National Book Critics Circle Awards. • Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism – awarded annually for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. • Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism – awarded to Malayalam language literary criticism, as a category of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award ==See also==