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This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Living Legend Award Won [3] 2003 National Book Foundation: Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Won [4] 2004 World Fantasy Award: Life Achievement: Won [1] 2007 Canadian Booksellers Association: Lifetime Achievement Award Won [5] 2007 Edgar Award: Grand Master Award: Won [6] 2010 Los Angeles Public Library: Literary Award ...
Alan Ball Local History Awards; Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction; Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing; British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding; CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction; Duff Cooper Prize; Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary ...
National Book Award winners, 1935–1941 Year Category Author Title 1935 Biography Vincent Sheean: Personal History: Most Original Book Charles G. Finney: The Circus of Dr. Lao: Nonfiction Anne Morrow Lindbergh: North to the Orient: Novel Rachel Field: Time Out of Mind: 1936 Biography Victor Heiser: An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in ...
The Eleanor Farjeon Award is made for distinguished service to the world of British children's books and is given to someone whose commitment and contribution is deemed to be outstanding. Founded in 1966, it is presented annually in memory of the celebrated author Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965).
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. [3] In 1901, the first laureate Sully Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 8,823,637.78 SEK in January 2018. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4]
In lieu of a 2018 Nobel laureate in literature, the alternative New Academy Prize in Literature, not affiliated with neither the Nobel Foundation or the Swedish Academy, and in no way supported by them, [18] was established as an alternative literary prize. [19] [20] [21] It was awarded to the Guadeloupan-French Maryse Condé. [22]