List of International Literature Awards

American literature

• Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
• 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
• Arab American Book Award
• Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
• Arthur Rense Prize
• Asian American Literary Awards
• Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
• Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full-length book manuscript
• Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full-length book manuscript
• Bancroft Prize
• Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
• The Best American Poetry series
• Best Translated Book Award
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
• Bollingen Prize
• Bram Stoker Award
• Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
• Christopher Hewitt Award
• Colorado Book Award
• The Dana Award
• Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
• Dos Passos Prize
• Edgar Allan Poe Award
• Edward Lewis Wallant Award
• Fabri Literary Prize
• Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Frost Medal
• Goldsmith Book Prize
• Gregory Kolovakos Award
• Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
• Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
• Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
• 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
• 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
• Nautilus Book Awards
• Nebula Award for Science Fiction
• Newbery Medal
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize
• O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
• 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/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
• PEN Translation Fund Grants
• Poets’ Prize
• Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
• Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology
• Pushcart Prize
• Quill Awards
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
• Robert Olen Butler Prize
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
• Scott Moncrieff Prize
• Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
• Short Story 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
• Pulitzer Prize for
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • General Non-Fiction

Australian literature

• 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
• 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
• Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
• Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
• Victorian Premier’s Literary Award

Austrian literature

• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
• Erich Fried Prize
• Franz Kafka Prize
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• Anton Wildgans Prize

Bangla literature

• Bangla Academy Award

Botswana literature

• Bessie Head Literature Awards

Brazilian literature

• Premio Jabuti
• Premio Machado de Assis
• São Paulo Prize for Literature

British literature

See also: List of British literary awards and Category:British literary awards

• Author’s Club First Novel Award
• Betty Trask Award
• 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 Prize
• Hawthornden Prize
• Hessell-Tiltman Prize
• International Rubery Book Award
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Meyer-Whitworth Award
• Newdigate prize
• Orange Prize for Fiction
• Orwell Prize
• Samuel Johnson Prize
• SI Leeds Literary Prize
• Somerset Maugham Award
• T. S. Eliot Prize
• Waverton Good Read Award
• Costa Book Awards
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• John Glassco Translation Prize
• Journey Prize
• Kobzar Literary 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
• Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

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

Ecuadorian literature

• Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize
• Premio Eugenio Espejo

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
• Prix Alain-Fournier
• Prix Décembre
• Prix de Flore
• Prix des Deux-Magots
• Prix Femina
• Prix Fénéon
• Prix du roman Fnac
• Prix Goncourt
• Prix Interallié
• Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
• Prix Médicis
• Prix Renaudot
• Candide Preis (the only one German-French Literary award)

Georgian literature

• Shota Rustaveli State Prize

German literature

• Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
• Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
• Candide Preis, German-French literary award in memoriam of Voltaire’s novella Candide
• Carl Zuckmayer Medal, an annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memoriam of Carl Zuckmayer
• Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
• 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 memoriam of Georg Büchner
• Goethe Prize, awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memoriam of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Hanseatic Goethe Prize
• Heinrich Heine Prize
• Hans Fallada Prize, a biennial literary prize in memoriam of Hans Fallada
• Heinrich Mann Prize
• Hermann Kesten Medal
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
• Kassel Literary Prize
• Kleist Prize
• Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, an annual science fiction award in memoriam of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
• Leipzig Book Fair Prize
• Nelly Sachs Prize
• Roswitha Prize
• Schiller Memorial Prize
• Toucan Prize

Hungarian literature

• Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award
• Baumgarten Prize
• Kossuth Prize

Icelandic literature

• Icelandic Literary Prize

Indian literature

• Jnanpith Award
• Sahitya Akademi Award
• Pampa Award
• Saraswati Samman

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
• 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 Award
• 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
• Tanizaki Prize
• Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
• Yomiuri Prize for Literature

Luxembourgian literature

• Batty Weber Prize
• Servais Prize

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

• 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

• Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
• Nike Award

Portuguese literature

• Prémio Camões

Russian literature

• Solzhenitsyn Prize
• Russian Booker Prize
• Pushkin Prize
• Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

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
• The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
• Thomas Pringle Award
• University of Johannesburg Prize

South Korean literature

• Dong-in Literary 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

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

• Solothurner Literaturpreis
• Swiss Book Prize

Thai literature

• S.E.A.Write Award
• Sriburapha Award

Turkish literature

• Erdal Oz Literature Award
• Orhan Kemal Literature Award
• Sait Faik Abasıyanık Literature Award
• Sedat Simavi Literature Award
• Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Literature Award

Ukrainian literature

• Shevchenko National Prize since 1961

Venezuelan literature

• Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize