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Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry – offered by the Library of Congress for the best book of poetry published by a living U.S. author during the preceding two years Bollingen Prize – offered by Yale University every two years to one or more living U.S. poets for the best collection published in that period, or for lifetime achievement in poetry
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.
A. List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship; Academy of American Poets; Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
Announcement of the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the world's richest literary prizes, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm (2008). 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.
A. Agatha Award; Alex Awards; Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement; Alice B Readers Award; Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults; Amazon's Best Books of the Year
Jeong Jiyong Literature Prize; Jibanananda Das Award; John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize; Jorge Carrera Andrade Award; José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature; Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has received numerous awards and nominations. His three separate poems – Prayer for the Newly Damned, Telemachus, and Self Portrait as Exit Wounds – respectively won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize before being published as a complete collection of poems.
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.