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This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.

## International awards
### All nationalities and multiple languages eligible

* Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901
* Hugo Award – since 1953
* 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
* Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
* 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

## 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

### 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

### 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)

### 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

### 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)
* 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
* 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
* 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 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

* 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 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
* 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

* 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
* 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
* New Zealand Post 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 Lanka

* 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

### 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
* Ignyte Awards – since 2023.

### 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.

## 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

## 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