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LITERARY AWARDS LIST

International Literary Awards


1. Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Established: 1901
  • Awarded by: The Swedish Academy
  • Eligibility: Authors of any nationality who have produced outstanding literary work.
  • Purpose: To honor an author for their entire body of work or a specific masterpiece in literature.
  • Notable Winners: Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro.

2. Booker Prize

  • Established: 1969
  • Awarded by: Booker Prize Foundation (UK)
  • Eligibility: Authors from the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, and Zimbabwe (later expanded to global eligibility).
  • Purpose: To honor the best original novel written in English.
  • Notable Winners: Arundhati Roy, Hilary Mantel, Salman Rushdie.

3. National Book Award (USA)

  • Established: 1950
  • Awarded by: National Book Foundation (USA)
  • Eligibility: Authors based in the United States.
  • Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature, Translated Literature.
  • Purpose: To recognize exceptional books in various genres by U.S. authors.
  • Notable Winners: James Baldwin, Colson Whitehead, Susan Sontag.

4. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

  • Established: 1917
  • Awarded by: Columbia University (USA)
  • Eligibility: American authors.
  • Purpose: To honor distinguished fiction by an American author, typically a novel.
  • Notable Winners: Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Richard Powers.

5. Goncourt Prize (Prix Goncourt)

  • Established: 1903
  • Awarded by: The Goncourt Academy (France)
  • Eligibility: French-language novels.
  • Purpose: To reward the most important French novel of the year.
  • Notable Winners: Marcel Proust, Annie Ernaux, Patrick Modiano.

6. Costa Book Awards

  • Established: 1971 (as the Whitbread Book Awards)
  • Awarded by: Costa Coffee (UK)
  • Eligibility: Authors based in the UK and Ireland.
  • Categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children's Book.
  • Purpose: To celebrate the best books across five categories.
  • Notable Winners: Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Barry, Julian Barnes.

7. Hugo Awards

  • Established: 1953
  • Awarded by: World Science Fiction Society (USA)
  • Eligibility: Works of science fiction or fantasy.
  • Purpose: To recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing.
  • Notable Winners: Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Neil Gaiman.

8. The Women’s Prize for Fiction

  • Established: 1996
  • Awarded by: The Women’s Prize for Fiction (UK)
  • Eligibility: Female authors from anywhere in the world.
  • Purpose: To celebrate and promote outstanding writing by women.
  • Notable Winners: Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Hilary Mantel.

9. The International Booker Prize

  • Established: 2005 (formerly known as the Booker International Prize)
  • Awarded by: The Booker Prize Foundation (UK)
  • Eligibility: Authors who have written books translated into English.
  • Purpose: To honor the best work of global literature that has been translated into English.
  • Notable Winners: Han Kang, Olga Tokarczuk, David Grossman.

10. Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

  • Established: 2000
  • Awarded by: The Wodehouse Trust (UK)
  • Eligibility: Novels of comic fiction.
  • Purpose: To celebrate comic writing in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse.
  • Notable Winners: Helen Fielding, Julian Fellowes, Edward St. Aubyn.

11. Baillie Gifford Prize

  • Established: 1999 (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize)
  • Awarded by: Baillie Gifford (UK)
  • Eligibility: Nonfiction books by authors from around the world.
  • Purpose: To reward the best nonfiction book of the year.
  • Notable Winners: Katherine Boo, Thomas Piketty, Svetlana Alexievich.

12. The Orwell Prize

  • Established: 1994
  • Awarded by: The Orwell Prize Trust (UK)
  • Eligibility: Books of political writing and essays.
  • Purpose: To recognize outstanding works of political writing.
  • Notable Winners: Robert Harris, Nick Davies, Tim Flannery.

13. The Commonwealth Writers' Prize

  • Established: 1987
  • Awarded by: The Commonwealth Foundation
  • Eligibility: Authors from Commonwealth countries.
  • Categories: Best Book, Best First Book.
  • Purpose: To recognize the best writing from the Commonwealth.
  • Notable Winners: Arundhati Roy, V.S. Naipaul, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

14. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature

  • Established: 1969
  • Awarded by: University of Oklahoma (USA)
  • Eligibility: Authors of significant literary works, regardless of nationality.
  • Purpose: To honor a living author for their outstanding contribution to world literature.
  • Notable Winners: Gabriel García Márquez, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

15. The International Dublin Literary Award

  • Established: 1996
  • Awarded by: Dublin City Libraries (Ireland)
  • Eligibility: Novels published in English or translated into English.
  • Purpose: To recognize the best novel published in English worldwide.
  • Notable Winners: Colum McCann, Jose Saramago, Peter Carey.
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