List of literary awards

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
• ARA Historical Novel Prize

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

Polish

• Angelus Award
• Gdynia Literary Prize
• Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
• Kościelski Award
• Nike Award
• Paszport Polityki for Literature
• Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
• Silesius Poetry Award
• Śląkfa Award
• Wisława Szymborska 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 Lankan literature

• 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

See also

• List of poetry awards
• List of comics awards
• List of Australian literary awards
• List of literary awards honoring women
• List of the world's richest literary prizes