List of literary awards - Wikipedia List of literary awards Literature Major forms Novel Poem Drama Short story Novella Genres Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance play Book Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists History modern Outline Glossary of terms Books Writers Literary awards poetry Discussion Criticism Theory ( critical theory ) Sociology Magazines Literature portal This is a list of literary awards from around the world. This list is not intended to be complete, and is instead a list of those literary awards with Wikipedia articles. Contents 1 International awards 1.1 All nationalities eligible ( in chronological order ) 1.2 Other 2 Awards by language 2.1 Arabic 2.2 Bengali 2.3 Chinese 2.4 German 2.5 Gujarati 2.6 Hebrew 2.7 Malayalam 2.8 Odia 2.9 Portuguese 2.10 Spanish 3 Awards by region 3.1 African 3.2 Asian 3.3 Caribbean literature 3.4 Commonwealth 3.5 European Union 3.6 Nordic 4 Awards by country 4.1 American literature 4.2 Australian literature 4.3 Austrian literature 4.4 Bangla literature 4.5 Botswana literature 4.6 Brazilian literature 4.7 British literature 4.8 Bulgarian literature 4.9 Canadian literature 4.10 Chilean literature 4.11 Chinese literature 4.12 Costa Rican literature 4.13 Croatian language 4.14 Czech literature 4.15 Ecuadorian literature 4.16 Finnish literature 4.17 French literature 4.18 Georgian literature 4.19 German literature 4.20 Hungarian literature 4.21 Icelandic literature 4.22 Indian literature 4.23 Indonesian literature 4.24 Iranian literature 4.25 Irish literature 4.26 Israeli literature 4.27 Italian literature 4.28 Japanese literature 4.29 Luxembourgian literature 4.30 Mexican literature 4.31 Nepalese Literature 4.32 New Zealand literature 4.33 Nigerian literature 4.34 Norwegian literature 4.35 Philippine literature 4.36 Polish literature 4.37 Portuguese literature 4.38 Russian literature 4.39 Serbian literature 4.40 Slovene literature 4.41 South African literature 4.42 South Korean literature 4.43 Spanish literature 4.44 Sri Lanka 4.45 Swedish literature 4.46 Swiss literature 4.47 Thai literature 4.48 Turkish literature 4.49 Ukrainian literature 4.50 Venezuelan literature 5 Awards by genres 5.1 Children 's literature 5.2 Food and drink 5.3 History 5.4 Horror fiction 5.5 Military fiction and military history 5.6 Mystery : crime fiction and detective fiction 5.7 Romance Fiction 5.8 Speculative fiction ( science fiction and fantasy ) 5.9 Sports 5.10 Biography 6 Awards for Literary Translation 7 See also 8 References 9 External links International awards See also : Category : International literary awards All nationalities eligible ( in chronological order ) Nobel Prize in Literature - since 1901 Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings - since 1966 Neustadt International Prize for Literature - since 1970 America Award - since 1994 Franz Kafka Prize - since 2001 Man Booker International Prize - since 2005 The Warwick Prize for Writing - since 2008 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature - since 2009 International Rubery Book Award - since 2010 KONS International Literary Award - since 2011 Grand Prix of Literary Associations - since 2013 Windham -- Campbell Literature Prizes - since 2013 Other Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children 's and youth literature -- since 2003 Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award for poets and translators -- since 1997 The Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year -- since 1978 Candide Preis -- since 1995 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service -- since 1979 Dayton Literary Peace Prize -- since 2006 Goethe Prize -- since 1927 Hans Christian Andersen Award for children 's literature -- since 1956 International Botev Prize -- since 1972 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- since 1996 Jerusalem Prize -- since 1963 Kiriyama Prize -- since 1996 Montreal International Poetry Prize -- since 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children 's Literature -- since 2003 Ovid Prize -- since 2002 Paris Literary Prize -- since 2010 Prince of Asturias Awards -- since 1981 Premio Iberoamericano Planeta - Casa de América de Narrativa -- since 2007 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- for Jewish children 's and teen literature, since 1968 Awards by language See also : Category : Literary awards by language Arabic See also : Category : Arabic literary awards Etisalat Award for Arabic Children 's Literature International Prize for Arabic Fiction Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Sheikh Zayed Book Award Bengali See also : Category : Bengali literary awards Rabindra Puraskar Bankim Puraskar Ananda Puraskar Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers Bangla Academy Award Chinese See also : Category : Chinese - language literary awards Bing Xin Children 's Literature Award Dream of the Red Chamber Award Lu Xun Literary Prize Mao Dun Literature Prize Newman Prize for Chinese Literature German See also : Category : German - language literary awards 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 ) Gujarati See also : Category : Gujarati literary awards Kumar Suvarna Chandrak Narmad Suvarna Chandrak Premanand Suvarna Chandrak Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar Yuva Gaurav Puraskar ( conferred to young authors ) Hebrew See also : Category : Hebrew literary awards Bialik Prize Sapir Prize Tchernichovsky Prize ( for translation ) Malayalam See also : List of Malayalam literary awards See also : Category : Malayalam literary awards Edasseri Award Ezhuthachan Puraskaram Kerala Sahitya Academy Award Muttathu Varkey Award Odakkuzhal Award Padmarajan Award Vallathol Award Vayalar Award Odia Odisha Sahitya Academy Award Portuguese See also : Category : Portuguese - language literary awards Camões Prize Prémio Leya Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature ( from 2007 onwards ) Prémio Literário José Saramago São Paulo Prize for Literature Spanish See also : Category : Spanish - language literary awards 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 Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize Awards by region See also : Category : Literary awards by region African See also : Category : African literary awards 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 ) Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Asian See also : Category : Asian literary awards Man Asian Literary Prize DSC Prize for South Asian Literature SAARC Literary Award Caribbean literature Casa de las Américas Prize OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Commonwealth See also : Category : Commonwealth literary awards Man 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 - since 2009 Nordic See also : Category : Nordic literary awards Nordic Council 's Literature Prize Awards by country See also : Category : Literary awards by country American literature See also : Category : American literary awards 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 Arab American Book Award Arthur Rense Prize Asian American Literary Awards Asian / Pacific American Awards for Literature Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full - length book manuscript Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full - length book manuscript Bancroft Prize Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation The Best American Poetry series Best Translated Book Award Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry Bollingen Prize Bram Stoker Award Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Christopher Hewitt Award Colorado Book Award The Dana Award Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards Dos Passos Prize Edgar Allan Poe Award Edward Lewis Wallant Award Fabri Literary Prize Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Frost Medal Goldsmith Book Prize Gregory Kolovakos Award Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator 's Prize Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award 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 The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award Joseph Henry Jackson Award Kate Tufts Discovery Award Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Lambda Literary Award 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 Nautilus Book Awards Nebula Award for Science Fiction Newbery Medal The New Criterion Poetry Prize O. Henry Awards ( for short stories ) 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 / 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 PEN Translation Fund Grants Poets ' Prize Premio Aztlán Literary Prize -- emerging Chicana / o writers Publishing Innovation Award -- ebooks and related technology Pulitzer Prize for History Fiction Poetry Drama General Non-Fiction Pushcart Prize Quill Awards Raiziss / de Palchi Translation Awards Robert Olen Butler Prize Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Scott Moncrieff Prize Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award Short Story Award Spur Award St. Francis College Literary Prize St. Louis Literary Award Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement Stonewall Book Award 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 See also : List of Australian literary awards and Category : Australian literary awards 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 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 Queensland Premier 's Literary Awards Western Australian Premier 's Book Awards Victorian Premier 's Literary Award Austrian literature See also : Category : Austrian literary awards Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Feldkircher Lyrikpreis Erich Fried Prize Franz Kafka Prize Austrian State Prize for European Literature Anton Wildgans Prize Bangla literature See also : Category : Bengali literary awards Bangla Academy Award Botswana literature See also : Category : Botswana literary awards Bessie Head Literature Awards Brazilian literature See also : Category : Brazilian literary awards Prêmio Jabuti Prêmio Machado de Assis São Paulo Prize for Literature British Literature See also : List of British literary awards and Category : British literary awards Author 's Club First Novel Award Betty Trask Award 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 Prize Hawthornden Prize Hessell - Tiltman Prize International Rubery Book Award James Tait Black Memorial Prize -- for biography James Tait Black Memorial Prize -- for fiction John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Meyer - Whitworth Award Newdigate prize Orange Prize for Fiction Orwell Prize Samuel Johnson Prize SI Leeds Literary Prize Somerset Maugham Award T.S. Eliot Prize Waverton Good Read Award Costa Book Awards 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 See also : Category : Bulgarian literary awards Vick Prize Canadian Literature See also : Category : Canadian literary awards Arthur Ellis Award Atlantic Book Awards & Festival Booker Prize Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature 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 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 Hilary Weston Writers ' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Chilean literature See also : Category : Chilean literary awards Chilean National Prize for Literature Chinese literature See also : Category : Chinese literary awards Lu Xun Literary Prize Mao Dun Literature Prize Newman Prize for Chinese Literature Costa Rican literature Premio Editorial Costa Rica Croatian language See also : Category : Croatian literary awards Croatia rediviva : Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Nagrada Matice Hrvatske Czech literature See also : List of Czech literary awards and Category : Czech literary awards Magnesia Litera Prize Ecuadorian literature See also : Category : Ecuadorian literary awards Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo Finnish literature See also : Category : Finnish literary awards Finlandia Prize for literature Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize Runeberg Prize for literature Thanks for the Book Award for literature French literature See also : Category : French literary awards Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française Prix Alain - Fournier Prix Décembre Prix de Flore Prix des Deux - Magots Prix Femina Prix Fénéon Prix du roman Fnac Prix Goncourt Prix Interallié Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud Prix Médicis Prix Renaudot Candide Preis ( the only German - French Literary award ) Georgian literature See also : Category : Literary awards of Georgia ( country ) Shota Rustaveli State Prize German literature See also : Category : German literary awards Bertelsmann - Preisausschreiben Bertolt - Brecht - Literaturpreis Candide Preis -- German - French literary award in memory of Voltaire 's novella Candide Carl Zuckmayer Medal, an annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 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 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 Nelly Sachs Prize Roswitha Prize Schiller Memorial Prize Toucan Prize Hungarian literature See also : Category : Hungarian literary awards Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award Baumgarten Prize Kossuth Prize Icelandic literature See also : Category : Icelandic literary awards Icelandic Literary Prize Indian literature See also : Category : Indian literary awards Jnanpith Award Sahitya Akademi Award Pampa Award Saraswati Samman Yuva Puraskar ( conferred to young authors ) Indonesian literature See also : Category : Indonesian literary awards Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition Iranian literature See also : Category : Iranian literary awards Jalal Al - e Ahmad Literary Awards Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award Irish literature See also : Category : Irish literary awards Irish Book Awards The Francis MacManus Award Israeli literature See also : Category : Israeli literary awards Bialik Prize Geffen Award Jerusalem Prize Sapir Prize Yitzhak Sadeh Prize Italian literature See also : Category : Italian literary awards Bagutta Prize Premio Bancarella Premio Campiello Premio Strega Premio Urania Viareggio Prize Flaiano Prize Japanese literature See also : Category : Japanese literary awards 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 Tanizaki Prize Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize Yomiuri Prize for Literature Luxembourgian literature See also : Category : Luxembourgian literary awards Batty Weber Prize Servais Prize Mexican literature See also : Category : Mexican literary awards Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura Xavier Villaurrutia Award FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages Nepalese Literature Madan Puraskar New Zealand literature See also : List of New Zealand literary awards and Category : New Zealand literary awards Esther Glen Award -- for children 's literature Joy Cowley Award -- for children 's literature Sir Julius Vogel Award -- for science fiction and fantasy New Zealand Post Book Awards Ngaio Marsh Award Margaret Mahy Award Prime Minister 's Awards for Literary Achievement Nigerian literature See also : Category : Nigerian literary awards Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing -- for works in the Hausa language Norwegian literature See also : Category : Norwegian literary awards 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 See also : Category : Philippine literary awards Palanca Award Philippine National Book Awards Polish literature See also : Category : Polish literary awards Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction Found in Translation Award Gdynia Literary Prize Kościelski Award Nautilus Award Nike Award Paszport Polityki for Literature Śląkfa Award Portuguese literature See also : Category : Portuguese literary awards Prémio Camões Russian literature See also : Category : Russian literary awards Solzhenitsyn Prize Russian Booker Prize Pushkin Prize Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award Serbian literature See also : Category : Serbian literary awards Isidora Sekulić Award NIN Award Slovene literature See also : Category : Slovenian literary awards 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 See also : Category : South African literary awards 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 The Cape Tercentenary Foundation Thomas Pringle Award University of Johannesburg Prize W.A Hofmeyr Prize South Korean literature See also : Category : South Korean literary awards Dong - in Literary Award Manhae Prize Yi Sang Literary Award So - Wol Poetry Prize Park Kyung - ni Prize Ho - Am Prize in the Arts Spanish literature See also : Category : Spanish literary awards 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 Sri Lanka See also : Category : Sri Lankan literary awards Gratiaen Prize State Literary Award Swedish literature See also : Category : Swedish literary awards Augustpriset De Nios Stora Pris Best Swedish Crime Novel Award -- awarded by Swedish Crime Writers ' Academy Swiss literature See also : Category : Swiss literary awards Solothurner Literaturpreis Swiss Book Prize Thai literature See also : Category : Thai literary awards S.E.A. Write Award Sriburapha Award Turkish literature See also : Category : Turkish literary awards Erdal Oz Literature Award Orhan Kemal Literature Award Sait Faik Abasıyanık Literature Award Sedat Simavi Literature Award Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Literature Award Ukrainian literature See also : Category : Ukrainian literary awards Shevchenko National Prize since 1961 Venezuelan literature See also : Category : Venezuelan literary awards Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize Awards by genres See also : Category : Literary awards by genre and type Children 's literature See also : Category : Children 's literary awards, Category : Children 's picture book awards, Category : Illustrated book awards, and Category : Young adult literature awards 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 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal ( USA ) -- since 1954 Hans Christian Andersen Award ( International ) -- since 1956 Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration ( UK ) -- since 1956 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children 's Book Award ( USA ) -- since 1957 Guardian Award ( UK ) -- since 1967 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 Bisto Book of the Year 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 Food and drink See also : Category : Food and drink literary awards Langhe Ceretto Prize ( international ) -- since 1991 History See also : Category : History awards Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction -- since 2008 Duff Cooper Prize -- since 1956 Wolfson History Prize -- since 1972 Horror fiction See also : Category : Horror fiction awards Bram Stoker Award -- for superior achievement in horror writing, since 1987 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 See also : Category : Military literary awards Colby Award for a first work of fiction or non-fiction -- 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 See also : Category : Mystery and detective fiction awards 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 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 Shamus Award Theakston 's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Romance Fiction RITA Award Speculative fiction ( science fiction and fantasy ) See also : List of science fiction awards, Category : Science fiction awards, and Category : Fantasy awards 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 Sports See also : Category : Sports writing awards 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 ) Jerry Malloy Book Prize ( US ) Seymour Medal ( US ) Dave Moore Award ( US ) Biography See also : Category : Biography awards 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 for literary translation See also : Category : Translation awards 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 Translation Award - an 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. See also List of poetry awards List of comics awards List of the world 's richest literary prizes References Jump up ^ Rossica Translation prize. Jump up ^ ALTA. Jump up ^ Rossica Young Translators Award. Jump up ^ Harvill Secker Young Translators ' Prize. External links Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years Graphical Author and Novel Ranking by Literary Awards : graphical ranking of authors and novels that received prominent literary award honors ( tabs across the top ) African Literary Awards Database, Indiana University Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_literary_awards&oldid=805903382 '' Categories : Lists of awards Literary awards Literature lists Poetry awards Talk Contents About Wikipedia Bosanski Deutsch Esperanto Français Magyar Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Português Slovenščina Suomi 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 18 October 2017, at 10 : 56. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

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Answer: Edgar Allan Poe Award