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Many literary awards give significant remunerations. This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$100,000 or equivalent. Although global in scope and comprising over 35 awards, most of the prizes are in only four currencies: United Arab Emirates dirham, Swedish krona, Euro, and United States dollar.
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.
It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta. Financially, it is the most valuable literary award in the world for an author or book, with the winner receiving €1,000,000. [1] It was created by José Manuel Lara Hernández in 1952 and is awarded on 15 October, St Teresa's day, Teresa being the name of Lara's wife.
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
It has been called "India's most valuable literature prize". [2] Rana Dasgupta is the founding Literary Director of the JCB Prize. [3] In 2020, Mita Kapur was appointed as the new Literary Director. [4] The JCB Literature Foundation was established to maintain the award. It is funded by the English construction manufacturing group JCB ...
A Minnesota novelist has won one of the world's richest literary prizes. V.V. Ganeshananthan, an associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota since 2015, won the Carol Shields ...
Critical acclaim and word-of-mouth passion for Headshot have already been forthcoming but the Booker – one of the most significant literary prizes in the world – always provides its chosen ...
As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French ...