List of poetry awards
List of literary prizes that are internationally, nationally or regionally awarded exclusively or primarily to poets or for poetry .
The table can be sorted; parts of the name not taken into account in the sorting appear in italics. The Country / Language column specifies to whom or for what purposes. Germany means here that the prize is awarded to works who were born in Germany or who live in Germany or for works that have been published in Germany. German means that the prize is awarded to German-speaking authors or in German or for works published in German-speaking countries. Awards are also assigned to a country or a language if occasionally the award is given to authors outside the country or language area. The amount stated in the endowment relates to the first prize if several prizes are awarded.
Surname | Country / language | awarded by | since | to | Rotation | Doping | Complementary |
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Albert Rotter Poetry Prize | Free association of authors “Collegium poeticum”, Eppertshausen | 1985 | 1 y. | € 150-250 | |||
Alfred Gruber Prize | German | South Tyrolean provincial government | 1993 | 2010 | 2 y. | € 3,100 | awarded together with the Meran Poetry Prize |
Anke Bennholdt Thomsen Poetry Prize | German | German Schiller Foundation | 2010 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | [1] | |
Arena Poetry Prize Riehen | German | Arena literature initiative Riehen | 1,000 SFr | [2] | |||
Baden poetry competition | German | Art Experience, Baden (Lower Austria) | [3] | ||||
Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize | English | The Moth magazine , Cavan, Ireland | 2012 | 1 y. | € 10,000 | [4] | |
Basel Poetry Prize | German | Basel poetry group | 2008 | 1 y. | 10,000 SFr | as part of the International Poetry Festival Basel ; [5] | |
Behçet Necatigil Poetry Prize | |||||||
Poetry Prize of the Brazilian Academy of Literature | |||||||
Bridport Prize | Bridport Arts Center , Bridport | 1973 | 1 y. | £ 10,000 | [6] | ||
Boga Tinti Poetry Prize | |||||||
Bungei Hanron Poetry Prize | Japanese | Bungei Hanron Publishing House | Poetry division | ||||
Cholmondeley Award | UK | Society of Authors | 1966 | 1 y. | £ 1,500-2,500 | [7] | |
Christian Wagner Prize | German | Christian Wagner Society | 1992 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | [8th] | |
Christine Busta Poetry Prize | German | Austrian Writers' Association | 2006 | 2006 | |||
Christine Lavant Poetry Prize | City of Wolfsberg (Carinthia) | € 7,000 | |||||
Clemens Brentano Prize | German | City of Heidelberg | 1993 | 1 y. | € 10,000 | The lyric section is awarded in rotation; [9] | |
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize | English / British Columbia | BC Book Prizes Board | 1986 | 1 y. | [10] | ||
Dorstener Poetry Prize | German | Literary working group Dorsten | 2003 | 5 y. | [11] | ||
Dresden Poetry Prize | German / Czech | City of Dresden | 1996 | 2 y. | € 5,000 | [12] | |
Dulzinea Poetry Prize | German | magazine Dulcinea | € 1,000 | [13] | |||
Dylan Thomas International Poetry Award | English | University of Wales, Trinity Saint David | 2014 | £ 2,000 | [14] | ||
Düsseldorf Poetry Prize | German | Literature office of North Rhine-Westphalia | 1995 | 1996 | 1 y. | 1,000 DM | |
Edith Heine Poetry Prize | German | Silesian Cultural Foundation | 2011 | 1 y. | 500 € | [15] | |
Else Lasker Schüler Poetry Prize | German | Else Lasker Student Society | 1994 | 1996 | |||
Ennigerloher sealing ring | Germany / North Rhine-Westphalia | Old distillery Schwake , cultural center of the city of Ennigerloh | 2002 | 1 y. | € 300 | [16] | |
Ernst Jandl Prize | German | Federal Ministry for Education and Women , Austria | 2001 | 2 y. | € 14,600 | [17] | |
Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry | Germany | City of Hagen | 1981 | 2-3 y. | [18] | ||
Fedor Malchow Poetry Prize | Writers' Association of Schleswig-Holstein | 1994 | 1996 | 2 y. | |||
Feldkirch Poetry Prize | German | Theater am Saumarkt in Feldkirch | 2003 | 1 y. | [19] | ||
Poetry Prize of the Rilke Festival | Fondation Rainer Maria Rilke, Sierre | 3 y. | [20] | ||||
Floriana Prize | German | Market town of St. Florian near Linz | 1993 | 2 y. | € 7,000 | [21] | |
Forward Poetry Prize | English | Forward Arts Foundation | 1992 | 1 y. | £ 10,000 | [22] | |
Prize of the Frankfurt Anthology | German | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | 1998 | 1 y. | € 10,000 | Prize for performers of poetry | |
Poetry Prize of the Free German Association of Authors | Free German Association of Authors | ||||||
Gendaishi Techōshō Poetry Prize | Japanese | Shichō Publishing House | 1960 | 1 y. | Section: Poetry | ||
Gerard Bonnier Poetry Prize (Gerard Bonniers lyrikpris) | Sweden | Albert Bonniers Forlag | 1978 | 1 y. | 100,000 Skr | ||
Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry | German / Austria | City of Salzburg / State of Salzburg | 1952 | € 7,500 | [23] | ||
Golden Ring of Honor "The German Poem" | German | German cultural work of the European spirit | 1953 | ||||
Golden wreath | Macedonian | International Struga Festival (Struški večeri na poezijata) | 1961, international 1966 | 1 y. | The evenings of poetry in Struga | ||
Grand Prix de Poésie | French | Académie française | 1955 | 1 y. | € 3,800 | [24] | |
Griffin Poetry Prize | English | 2001 | 1 y. | 75,000 CAD (200,000 CAD total) | [25] | ||
Günter Eich Prize for Poetry | German | State of Salzburg | 1984 | 1990 | 40,000 ATS | Poetry Prize for the Rauris Literature Prize | |
Poetry Prize of the Gustaf Fröding Society | |||||||
Hafiz Prize for Poetry | Persian Literature Club Hafiziyeh, Düsseldorf | ||||||
Haiku and Senryû Prize | German | magazine Dulcinea | 250 € | [26] | |||
Hamburg Poetry Prize | |||||||
Heinz Weder Prize for Poetry | German / Switzerland | Heinz and Hannelise Weder Foundation, Bern | 1999 | 2 y. | 10,000 SFr | [27] | |
Hildesheim poetry competition | German | Forum Literatur Büro e. V. | 1 y. | [28] | |||
Hölty Prize | City of Hanover | 2008 | 2 y. | € 20,000 | [29] | ||
Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry | international | Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts | 1991 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | [30] | |
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Eastern European Poetry | international | Hubert Burda Media | 1999 | 2010 | 1 y. | € 10,000 | [31] |
Inge Czernik sponsorship award | German | Czernik-Verlag "Edition L" | 1986 | 2012 | 1 y. | ||
International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine | English | Hippocrates initiative | 2009 | 1 y. | £ 5,000 | [32] | |
Poetry Prize of the International Lake Constance Conference | German | International Lake Constance Conference | 10,000 SFr | changing branches; [33] | |||
Irseer Pegasus | German | Regional group Swabia of the Association of German Writers / Swabian Academy Irsee | 1999 | 1 y. | € 1,500 | [34] | |
Jirí Orten Poetry Prize | |||||||
Joachim Ringelnatz Prize | German | City of Cuxhaven | 1986 | 2 y. | € 15,000 | [35] | |
Joker's Poetry Prize | German | Jokers , bookstore chain of the Weltbild publishing group | 2003 | 1 y. | € 1,000 | [36] | |
Józef Baka Poetry Prize (Nagrodę poetycką im. Ks. Józefa Baki) | 1990 | ||||||
Youth Poetry Prize Stuttgart | Germany / Stuttgart | City of Stuttgart | 2007 | 1 y. | € 300 | [37] | |
Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize (Juhan Liivi luuleauhind) | Estonian | Alatskivi Municipality , Tartu County | 1965 | 1 y. | 1970–1983 not awarded; [38] | ||
Carinthian Poetry Prize | German / Slovenian | Stadtwerke Klagenfurt | 2008 | 1 y. | € 3,000 | ||
Poetry Prize of the column | German | Journal Die Kolonne | 1929 | 1932 | |||
Poetry Prize at the City of Innsbruck Art Prize | German | City of Innsbruck | 1952 | 2 y. | € 4,000 | Lyric division is awarded irregularly; [39] | |
La Catalana de Lletres | Catalan | Catalunya Cultura radio station | 2003 | 2006 | 1 y. | ||
Poetry Prize of the Country of Uruguay | |||||||
louder nobody poetry award | Author initiative u. Magazine no one | 2003 | [40] | ||||
Leonce and Lena Prize | German | City of Darmstadt | 1968 | 2 y. | € 8,000 | [41] | |
Poetry grant "Literary Dresden" | Literary Dresden e. V. | 2012 | 1 y. | € 2,700 | [42] | ||
Literature award of the cultural group of the German economy | German | 2009 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | Poetry division; [43] | ||
Literature competition for poetry and short prose of the Esslingen Artists' Guild | Esslingen Artists' Guild | 1 y. | [44] | ||||
Looming Poetry Prize | |||||||
Poetry Debut Prize | German | Literary Colloquium Berlin | 1999 | 2005 | 2 y. | € 5,000 | |
Poetry Prize Merano | German | South Tyrolean provincial government | 1993 | 2 y. | € 8,000 | [45] | |
Poetry Prize Munich | German | Munich Literature Office | 2010 | 1 y. | € 1,000 | [46] | |
Poetry Prize of the Freudenstadt Lyriktage | see Inge-Czernik-Förderpreis | ||||||
Lyric October | see Inge-Czernik-Förderpreis | ||||||
Maria-Zittrauer-Lyrik-Förderpreis | Austria / State of Salzburg | Gastein cultural area | 2004 | 3 y. | € 2,000 | [47] | |
Mondseer Poetry Prize | German | Mondsee municipality | 1998 | 2 y. | € 7,500 | ||
Montreal International Poetry Prize | English | Montreal International Poetry Prize , Montreal | 2011 | 1 y. | 50,000 CAD | [48] | |
Dialect competition, Dannstadter Höhe | German / Palatinate | Verbandsgemeinde Dannstadt-Schauernheim | 1988 | 1 y. | 500 € | Poetry division; [49] | |
Muro Saisei Poetry Prize | Japanese | 1960 | 1967 | 1 y. | Poetry division | ||
NC Kaser Poetry Prize | international | Bookworms Association, Lana , South Tyrol | 1988 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | [50] | |
National Poetry Competition | English | Poetry Society, London | 1978 | 1 y. | £ 5,000 | [51] | |
Necatigil Poetry Prize | |||||||
New Zealand Poet Laureate | New Zealand | National Library of New Zealand | 1997 | 2 y. | NZ $ 100,000 | [52] | |
Nikolaus Lenau Prize | German | Esslingen Artists' Guild | 1985 | 2 y. | € 5,500 | ||
Norma Farber First Book Award | Poetry Society of America | 1994 | 1 y. | $ 500 | [53] | ||
Open Mike | German | Literature workshop Berlin | 1993 | 1 y. | [54] | ||
Austrian State Prize for Children's Poetry | German | Austria | 1993 | € 8,000 | [55] | ||
Pamir International Poetry Price | |||||||
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award | |||||||
Poetry Prize of the PEN Club Liechtenstein | |||||||
Peter Huchel Prize | SWR | 1984 | 1 y. | € 10,000 | [56] | ||
Poetic Republic Poetry Prize | English | Online community | 2009 | 1 y. | £ 2,000 | [57] | |
Poet Laureate | UK | English royal family | 1999 | 10 y. | previously since the end of the 16th century. lifelong court office | ||
Poetry Debut Prize Düsseldorf | German | Heine house | 2016 | 2 y. | 5000 € | [58] | |
Poet Laureate of the Library of Congress | United States | Library of Congress | 1937 | 1 y. | |||
Poetry Prize of the Portuguese PEN Club | |||||||
Postpoetry | Germany / North Rhine-Westphalia | Society for Literature in North Rhine-Westphalia | 2011 | 1 y. | [59] | ||
Premio de Poesia Actor Mário Viegas | |||||||
Premio Internazionale di Poesia Nosside | international | Centro Studi Bosio, Reggio Calabria , Italy | 1 y. | [60] | |||
Premio Internazionale di Poesia San Gerardo Maiella | |||||||
Premio Nacional de Poesía Pedro Henríquez Ureña | |||||||
Prix Guillaume Apollinaire | French | Académie Goncourt | 1947 | 1 y. | € 3,500 | ||
Reiner Kunze Prize | German | City of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. | 2007 | 2 y. | € 4,000 | ||
Rhysling Award | English | Science Fiction Poetry Association | 1978 | 1 y. | [61] | ||
Robert Gernhardt Prize | Germany / Hessen | Hessian Ministry for Science and Art | 1993 | 1 y. | € 12,000 | [62] | |
Robert L. Kahn Poetry Prize | Society for Contemporary American Literature in German | [63] | |||||
Poetry Prize of the Romanian Writers' Union | |||||||
Salzburg Poetry Prize | Austria / State of Salzburg | State of Salzburg | 1993 | € 3,000 | alternating with the Georg Trakl Prize ; [64] | ||
Sickinger dialect contest | German / Palatinate | Verbandsgemeinde Wallhalben | 1991 | 2 y. | Poetry division; [65] | ||
Sowol Poetry Prize | |||||||
Poetry Prize of the City of Amsterdam | |||||||
Poetry Prize of the City of Graz | German | City of Graz | 1952 | 1958 | 2 y. | ||
Poetry Prize of the City of Montevideo | |||||||
Prize of the city of Münster for international poetry | international | City of Munster | 1993 | 2 y. | € 15,500 | [66] | |
Stefan Hölscher & Geest-Verlag literature competition | German | Stefan Hölscher and Geest Verlag | 2014 | 1 y. | € 100.00 to € 300.00 | [67] ; Poetry, aphorisms and prose miniatures | |
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings | international | Struga Poetry Evenings , Struga , Macedonia | 1966 | 1 y. | [68] | ||
Sveriges Radio Poetry Prize | |||||||
Poetry Prize of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba | |||||||
Vera Piller Poetry Prize | German | Magazine places | 1984 | 1991 | |||
VSB Poëzieprijs | Dutch | Stichting VSB Poëzieprijs, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | 1994 | 1 y. | € 25,000 | [69] | |
Westphalian sponsorship award | Germany / Westphalia | City of Hagen | 2003 | 2-3 y. | Prize for the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry ; [70] | ||
Wiesbaden Poetry Prize Orphil | German | City of Wiesbaden | 2012 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | [71] | |
Wilhelm Busch Prize | German | Stadthagen / Schaumburger news | 1987 | 2 y. | € 10,000 | [72] | |
Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship award | German | City of Darmstadt | 1979 | 2 y. | € 4,000 | Promotion Prize for the Leonce and Lena Prize ; [73] | |
Zurich Poetry Prize | German | Literature & Art magazine | 2012 | 2,500 SFr | [74] |
Web links
- Poetry prizes on Kulturpreise.de
- Poetry prizes on Literaturport.de