List of literary prizes

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Adalbert Stifter Prize for writers and translators in Central Europe - since 1926 - Austria
Albatros Literature Prize for Writers and Translators - since 2006 - Bremen
André Gide Prize for young German-French translators - from 1998 to 2010 - Stuttgart
Anna Seghers Prize for young authors from German-speaking and Latin American countries - since 1986 - Berlin
Basel Poetry Prize - since 2008 - Switzerland - Prize money CHF 10,000
Booker Prize (officially the Man Booker Prize for Fiction ) for English language novels - 1969 - United Kingdom
Bram Stoker Award - Horror Literature - since 1987 - USA
Budapest Grand Prize - literary prize awarded by the Hungarian International Book Festival - Hungary since 1995
Corine - International Book Prize - Bavaria - since 2001 - various categories (non-fiction, audio books, fiction, economics, debut prize, children and youth, future prize, ...)
Diagram Prize - for the most unusual English-language book title - since 1978 - United Kingdom
Duncan Lawrie International Dagger - for crime fiction translated into English - since 1955 - United Kingdom
Erich Fried Prize - since 1990 - annually - Austria - prize money 15,000 euros
Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry - since 1981 - Hagen
Euregio pupil literature prize - annually since 2002, 400 pupils from D / NL / BEL choose a winner from six works (all translated into German / Dutch / French), prize money 5,000 euros; The translators are also awarded prizes (1,000 euros). - Aachen / Maastricht / Liege
European Garden Book Prize - since 2007 - awarded by Schloss Dennenlohe - Bavaria
European Prize for Literature - since 2005 - Strasbourg
Feldkircher Poetry Prize - since 2003 - Austria
Floriana Literature Prize - Biennale for Literature for Writers - Linz / Austria
Franz Kafka Literature Prize Prague - since 2001
Franz Tumler Literature Prize - since 2007 - Laas / Vinschgau / South Tyrol / Italy
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade - since 1950 - Frankfurt am Main
Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt - since 1927
Golden Wreath Poetry Prize from Struga (Macedonia)
Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire - for the best French-language novel in Black Africa - since 1961 - Paris (Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, Congo, Burkina Faso, Niger, ...)
Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature - since 1936 - Austria
Hans Christian Andersen Award - since 1956 - International Children's and Young People's Literature Prize - Denmark, international jury, international award winners - pure honorary award with a gold medal
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize - since 2007 - every two years - prize money 64,000 euros - Odense / Denmark
Hans Sahl Prize - 1995 - Author group of the Federal Republic - Forum for Literature and Politics - Prize money 10,000 euros
Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize - since 2000 - Hoffmann von Fallersleben Society - Wolfsburg-Fallersleben - every two years - 15,000 euros
Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry - since 1991 - Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts - 10,000 euros
Hotlist - Prize of the independent German-language book publishers - since 2009 - Frankfurt Book Fair - 5,000 euros - Germany / Austria / Switzerland
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry - since 1999 - annually - sponsored by Hubert Burda for young Eastern European poets - 5,000 euros
International Book Awards - for authors of literature in English (by Bookvana) - since 2010 - various categories (animals, children, anthology, art, autobiography, best design, business, ...)
International DUBLIN Literary Award - since 1996 - orig . Donated by the American company Improved Management Productivity and Control (IMPAC) - 100,000 euros

International Rubery Book Award - for authors of literature in English

International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures - since 2009 - annually - Berlin - Prize for foreign-language author (20,000 euros) and translator prize (15,000 euros)

International Stefan Heym Prize - since 2008 - to time-critical and courageous authors and publicists - every three years - prize money 40,000 euros - Chemnitz

International Thriller Award - thriller literature - since 2006 - from The International Thriller Writers Inc. - to English-language thrillers - Eureka, Toronto / Canada

Jean Améry Prize for Essay Writing - 1982

Lambda Literary Award - English-language works in the field of LGBT - since 1988

Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding - since 1994 - annually - at the Leipzig Book Fair - prize money of 15,000 euros

Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage - from 2003 to 2006

LiBeraturpreis - Frankfurt - since 1988 - annually - prize money 3,000 euros

LITERAturpreis - Linz

European Union Prize for Literature , since 2009

Nordic Council Literature Prize - for Scandinavian beautiful literature - since 1962

Kiriyama Prize - for outstanding new books (fiction and non-fiction) from or about the countries bordering the Pacific - since 1996

Man Booker International Prize - for authors of English literature - since 2005

National Jewish Book Awards - for authors of English literature

Nobel Prize for Literature - the most famous international literary prize - since 1901

Nosside - International Poetry Prize of the Centro Studi Bosio, Reggio Calabria - since 1984

O. Henry Prize for Short Stories in English - since 1919

Austrian State Prize for European Literature - 1965

Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism - since 1979

Orwell Award for critical analysis of public issues - since 1975

Orwell Prize for Political Literature and Journalism - since 1994

Prize of the Literature Houses - since 2002

Prize of the City of Münster for European Poetry - since 1993

Award of the SWR best list - since 1987

European Book Prize - since 2007

Premio Alfaguara de Novela for novels from the Spanish- speaking area - since 1965

Prémio Camões for works from Portuguese- speaking countries - since 1989

Prince of Asturias Prize - since 1981

Prix Aristeion - since 1990

Prix Goncourt - since 1903

Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente - Prize for European literature

Prix lémanique de la traduction , Swiss prize for German-French translations in both directions

Prix triennal de bibliographie de la Ligue Internationale de la Librairie ancienne

Pulitzer Prize American journalism and media award - since 1917

Ripper Award - European price for crime literature - since 2008

SEA Write Award - Southeast Asia - since 1979

Siegfried Lenz Prize - since 2014

Somerset Maugham Award - for English-language authors under 35 - since 1947

Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize - since 2001

State Prize for Narrative Prose - Belgium

Stonewall Book Award - for LGBT English-language literature - since 1971

The Martin Beck Award - crime fiction - since 1971

Turner Tomorrow Awards

Usedom Literature Prize - since 2011

World Fantasy Award - Fantasy Fiction - 1975

Würth Prize for European Literature - since 1998

National prices

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Europe

Andorra

Premi Fiter i Rossell de novella - since 1987

Belgium

Flanders

The Belgian literary prizes for the Flemish language area usually also include authors from the Netherlands. Some literature prizes are advertised for the entire Dutch language area (Nederlands taalgebiet).

Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Proza - from 1981, every three years
- - - Vijfjaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor Letterkunde - 1855–1915, every five years
    - Driejaarlijkse Staatsprijs voor verhalend proza - 1918–1978, every three years
Fintro Literature Prize (Fintro Literatuur Prijs) - since 1995 - Flemish Literature Prize, formerly " Gouden Uil " and also " Gouden Boekuil "
- - - Golden Book Owl - s. Finto Literatuur Prijs
Boekenleeuw - since 1989 - Youth Book Prize (Dutch-Flemish)
Boekenwelpen - since 1989 - youth book award (Dutch-Flemish)
Poet of the Vaderlands (poète national) - 1899; new since 2014 (every two years)
Paul Snoek Poetry Prize - since 1986; every three years from 2001
- - - Gerard Walschap Prize - Literatuurprijs Gerard Walschap-Londerzeel, Gerard Walschap prijs or Seghers Literatuurprijs - from 1999 to 2009, only awarded 6 times, every two years
Diamanten Kogel - Crime Award, annually since 2002
Flemish Readers' Prize - Prijs van de Vlaamse Lezer
Herman de Coninck Prize - Herman de Coninckprijs - annually since 2007, literary prize for poetry: best volume of poetry / best poetry debut / best poem (readers' vote)
Poëzieprijs van De Vlaamse Gids
Poëzieprijs van de provincie Limburg
Poëzieprijs van de provincie Antwerp
Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
Hugues C. Pernathprijs
Gedichtendagprijzen
Karel van de Woestijneprijs for poëzie van de gemeente Sint-Martens-Latem

Wallonia and Brussels

Belgian francophone literary professionals maintain close contacts with France and other francophone regions, as is the case in a similar way between Flanders and the Netherlands.

Bulgaria

Helikon - since 2002

Denmark

Beatrice Prize

Det Danske Akademis Store Pris

Danske Bank Literature Prize

DR novel award

Faroese Literature Prize - Faroese Literature - since 1958

Georg Brandes Prize - literary criticism and research - since 1969

De Gyldne Laurbær

Hans Christian Andersen Prize - Children's Literature - since 1956

Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize

Harald Mogensen Prize - crime literature - since 2007

Kjeld Abell Prize

Danish Critics 'Prize - Prize of the Danish Literary Critics' Guild - since 1957

Læsernes bogpris - awarded by the readers of the daily Berlingske - since 2004

Palle Rosenkrantz Prize - Crime Fiction - since 1987

Søren Gyldendal Prize - fiction and non-fiction - since 1958

Weekendavisens litteraturpris - reader award of the weekly newspaper Weekendavisen - since 1980

Germany

Estonia

Kultuurkapitali kirjanduspreemia

Faroe Islands

Faroese Literature Prize - Faroese Literature, see Denmark

Finland

France

Great Britain

Booker Prize , the UK's most prestigious literary prize
Branford Boase Award , youth book
Children's Laureate , children's book
Cholmondeley Award , poetry
Costa Book Awards
CWA Dagger Award
Dingle Prize
Forward Poetry Prize
Guardian Award
Guardian First Book Award
Hawthornden Prize
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
John Pickstone Prize
Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
TS Eliot Prize
Whitbread Book Award (until 2005)
Wolfson History Prize
Women's Prize for Fiction

Ireland

Bisto Book of the Year Award , for books for children and young people
Irish Book Award , presented in several categories
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award , for fiction by Irish writers
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award , for the first published collection of poetry by an Irish author
Poetry Now Award , for the best collection of poetry by an Irish poet in the previous year
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature , awarded to Irish authors under 40 years of age

Iceland

Blóðdropinn (dt. Blood drop ) - crime literature
Icelandic Literature Prize (isl. Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin ), annually in the categories of fiction and specialist literature

Italy

Lithuania

Ieva Simonaitytė Literature Prize , since 1987

Netherlands

Norway

Bastian Prize - translations in fiction - since 1951
Brageprisen - Norwegian literature - since 1992
Children's Books price of Riksmål Society - since 1977
Critic Award - since 1950
Literature Prize of the Riksmålsforbundet Literature in Riksmål - since 1957
Norwegian Academy Prize - Literature in Riksmål - since 1983
Riverton Prize - Crime Fiction - since 1972
Novel award of the P2 audience - since 1997

Austria

Poland

Nike (Literature Prize) - since 1997
Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize - since 1996

Portugal

Russia

Sweden

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize
Astrid Lindgren Prize
August price
Bellman Prize
Dobloug Prize annually two Swedish and two Norwegian winners
Expressens Heffaklump
Flintyxan - historical crime fiction
Gerard Bonnier Prize
Gerard Bonnier Poetry Prize
Kellgren Prize
Mölle Literature Prize
Nils Holgersson badge
Poloni Prize - Crime Fiction
Swedish Crime Award - crime fiction
Tomas Tranströmpriset
Tucholsky Prize

Switzerland

Aargau Literature Prize - since 1978
Basel Literature Prize
Basel Poetry Prize
Bern Literature Prize - since 1969
Bündner Literature Prize - since 1999
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize - since 1938
Gottfried Keller Prize - since 1922
Grand Prix C.-F. Ramuz - since 1955
Grand Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern - since 1981
Grand Literature Prize from the city and canton of Bern - since 2010
Great Schiller Prize - since 1920
Heinz Weder Prize for Poetry - since 1999
Jan Michalski Literature Prize
Jonathan Swift Prize - since 2015
Kurt Marti Prize - since 2018
Max Frisch Prize - since 1998
Prix Colette
Robert Walser Prize - since 1978
Schiller Prize from Zürcher Kantonalbank - since 1979
Swiss Book Prize - since 2008
Swiss literary prizes - since 2013
Solothurn Literature Prize - since 1994
Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize - since 2001
Prix Rambert - since 1903
Welti Foundation Prize for Drama - since 1927
Zurich Children's Book Prize - since 1976

Serbia

Slovenia

Scandinavia

Glasnyckeln - crime literature - since 1992

Spain

Premio Alfaguara de Novela - since 1965
Premiu Nacional de Lliteratura Asturiana - since 2016, first awarded in 2017
Biblioteca Breve - since 1958
Cervantes Prize - since 1976
Queen Sofía Prize
La Catalana de Lletres , Catalan Poetry Prize (2003 to 2006)
Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara , Category "Novel"
Premio Fernando Lara de Novela , category "Novelle"
Nadal Literature Prize
Prince of Asturias Prize
Premium Carlemany
Premio Hammett - crime fiction
Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero - Spanish-language short story, internationally oriented
Premio Planeta
Premi Sant Jordi de novella

Ukraine

Hungary

Attila József Prize (since 1950)
Balassi Bálint-emlékkard (since 1997)
Hungarian Literature Prize
Sándor Bródy Prize (donated in 1995 in honor of Sándor Bródy )
Sandor Marai Prize (donated in December 1994)
former prices:
- Baumgarten Prize (awarded 1929 to 1944 and 1946 to 1949; donated in 1923 by Franz Ferdinand Baumgarten )
- Kossuth Prize (awarded up to and including 1962 in the 'Literature' category)

Africa

Mozambique

Niger

Prix Boubou Hama - since 1989

South Africa

Hertzogprys - since 1916
CNA Literary Award - since 1961
Alan Paton Award - since 1989

America

Canada

Amazon.ca First Novel Award - for the best debut novel by a Canadian citizen or resident
Arthur Ellis Award - Crime Fiction
BC Book Prizes - group of literary prizes
Canada Reads / Le combat des livres
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize - for the best illustrated children's book
Danuta Gleed Literary Award - for the best first English-language short story collection by a Canadian writer
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize - Poetry
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize - for the best literary work by a British Columbia resident
Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History - Historical Non-fiction
Governor General's Awards , collective term for 7 different categories, each in two national languages, English and French
- Governor General's Award for Fiction
Griffin Poetry Prize - Poetry
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize - non-fiction
Journey Prize - for the best young writer's short story published in a Canadian literary magazine
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Matt Cohen Prize
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize - non-fiction book with regional reference to British Columbia
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize - Children's Book
Sunburst Award
Toronto Book Awards - Fiction, Non-Fiction
Trillium Book Award - fiction, non-fiction, drama, children's and youth books and poetry
Vicky Metcalf Award

Mexico

Carlos Fuentes Prize

United States

American Book Award

Agatha Award - crime fiction

Anthony Award - Crime Fiction

Barry Award - Crime Fiction

Dilys Award - Crime Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe Award - Crime Fiction

Gumshoe Awards - Crime Fiction
Hammett Prize - crime fiction
Hugo Award - American fan award for science fiction
International Thriller Award - Crime Fiction
James Tiptree, Jr. Award - for science fiction or fantasy works that explore or expand gender roles
Lannan Literary Awards , fellowships awarded in various categories since 1989

Locus Award

Macavity Award - Crime Fiction

National Book Award

National Book Critics Circle Award

Nebula Award - American writer's award for science fiction

Nero Wolfe Award - crime fiction

Newbery Medal - American children's book award

T. Jefferson Parker Book Award - Crime Fiction

PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction

Philip K. Dick Award , SF

Pulitzer Prize - the award of American journalists

Readers Choice Award - Crime Fiction Prize

Regina Medal - Catholic children's book award

Robert W. Bingham Prize - for work on the second work of a literary debutant

Shamus Award - Crime Fiction

Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction

The Nero Wolfe Award - crime fiction

Asia

China

India

Jnanpith Award

Iran

Israel

Japan

Korea

Park Kyung ni Literature Prize - since 2011

Turkey

Australia and Oceania

Australia

Victorian Premier's Literary Award - since 1986
Aurealis Award - since 1996
Aurealis Award / Science Fiction - since 1996
Kathleen Mitchell Award - since 1996
Miles Franklin Award - since 1957
Ned Kelly Award - Crime Fiction - since 1996

New Zealand

Prices for special categories

Children's and young people's literature

Poetry

Fantastic

Translations

Web links

Literaturport Berlin | Brandenburg Current calendar of literary prizes

Individual evidence

↑ Dennenlohe Castle
↑ see also en: Attila József Prize
↑ see also en: Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award
↑ see also en: Sándor Bródy Prize

[1] Dennenlohe Castle

[2] see also en: Attila József Prize

[3] see also en: Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award

[4] see also en: Sándor Bródy Prize