List of richest literary prizes
Prizes
Key Columns are sortable (click small square) Type: Book: Award is for a book title / Author: Award is for an author name (*) Award is not literary-specific but has some literary winners.

List of richest literary prizes

Section Title: Prizes
Table Section Text: Key Columns are sortable (click small square) Type: Book: Award is for a book title / Author: Award is for an author name (*) Award is not literary-specific but has some literary winners.

Equivalent in US$ (April 2016)	Prize amount	Prize name	Type	Host country	Primary language	Notes	Ref(s)

1,361,000	DH 5,000,000	Million's Poet	N/A	UAE	Arabic	Award for a single poem. Total prizes for 2nd to 5th positions are $2,723,000. Sister prize of Prince of Poets

1,080,000	kr 9,000,000	Nobel Prize in Literature	Author	Sweden	Any	There are five Nobel Prizes of 9 million kronor each.

680,000	€601,000	Premio Planeta de Novela (winner)	Book	Spain	Spanish	See also runner-up of same prize.

618,000	kr 5,000,000	Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award	Author	Sweden	Any

307,000	kr 2,500,000	International Ibsen Award	Author*	Norway	Any	Any drama and theater position eligible, not just writers.

300,000	US$300,000	The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize	Author*	United States	English	Open to all arts, not just writers.

272,2600	DH 1,000,000	Prince of Poets	N/A	UAE	Arabic	Award for a single poem. Sister prize of Million's Poet

260,000	US$260,000	Katara Prize for Arabic Novel	Book	Qatar	Arabic	Plus 4 winners of $60,000 and 5 of $30,000. Total prize pool is $650,000

250,000	US$250,000	Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language	Author	Mexico	Spanish

226,000	€200,000	Prix mondial Cino Del Duca	Author	France	Any

212,000	DH 777,777	Sheikh Zayed Book Award	Book	United Arab Emirates	Arabic	9 awards for a total of AD7,000,000

200,000	US$200,000	Saudi King Abdullah International Award for Translation	Author	Saudi Arabia	Arabic	5 awards of 200,000 each (1 million total)

175,000	US$175,000	Alfaguara Prize	Book	Spain	Spanish

170,000	€150,000	Premio Planeta de Novela (runner-up)	Book	Spain	Spanish	See also winner of same prize.

165,000	US$165,000	Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes	Author	United States	English	Composed of seven to nine awards of $165,000 each.

153,000	kr. 1,000,000	Sonning Prize	Author*	Denmark	Any	Open to all arts not just writers.

150,000	US$150,000	Lannan Literary Awards	Author	United States	English	Composed of three awards of $150,000 each. Prize amount last verified for 2007.

150,000	US$150,000	FIL Literature Award	Author	Mexico	Spanish

142,000	€125,000	Miguel de Cervantes Prize	Author	Spain	Spanish

142,000	€125,000	RBA Prize for Crime Writing	Book	Spain	Any

136,000	€120,000	Premio de Novela Fernando Lara	Book	Spain	Spanish

114,000	€100,000	Rómulo Gallegos Prize	Book	Venezuela	Spanish

114,000	€100,000	Premio Primavera de Novela	Book	Spain	Spanish

114,000	€100,000	International Dublin Literary Award	Book	Ireland	English

114,000	€100,000	Premio Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio	Book	Spain	Spanish

114,000	€100,000	Camões Prize	Author	Portugal Brazil	Portuguese

114,000	€100,000	Prémio Leya	Book	Portugal	Portuguese

100,000	US$100,000	Premio de Traducción Literaria Tomás Segovia	Author	Mexico	Spanish	Translator award

100,000	US$100,000	Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding	Book	Qatar	Arabic	Translation award. Total award value is $2 million.

100,000	US$100,000	Nigeria Prize for Literature	Book	Nigeria	English

100,000	US$100,000	Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing	Author	United States	English

100,000	US$100,000	Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize	Author	United States	English

100,000	US$100,000	Wallace Stevens Award	Author	United States	English

100,000	US$100,000	Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature	Book	United States	English

100,000	US$100,000	The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards	Author	United States	English

100,000	US$100,000	Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Awards	Author	United Arab Emirates	Arabic	Composed of five awards of $100,000 each.

100,000	US$100,000	Park Kyong-ni Prize	Author	South Korea	Any

95,000	A$125,000	Victorian Premier's Literary Awards	Book	Australia	English	$25,000 winner in each category + $100,000 for overall winner.

93,000	¥10,000,000	Yokomizo Seishi Prize	Book	Japan	Japanese

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Endowed with $150,000, FIL Award is given to a writer in recognition of their work, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

final_sentence: Endowed with $150,000, FIL Award is given to a writer in recognition of their work, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.