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

Sentence(s)

Financially, Premio Planeta de Novela is the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature, with the winner receiving €601,000.

final_sentence: Financially, Premio Planeta de Novela is the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature, with the winner receiving €601,000.