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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Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction; Duff Cooper Prize; Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit; James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for biography
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.
Pages in category "British literary awards" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. ... BBC National Short Story Award; Benson Medal; Best ...
A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare around the world. [10] Literary critics have noted that it is a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or to be nominated for the "longlist". [1]
The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, ran from 1990 to 2009 and were founded by the editor of Publishing News. [1] The awards were then acquired by Agile Marketing, which renamed them the National Book Awards and called them the Galaxy National Book Awards (2010–2011) and later the Specsavers National Book Awards (2012–2014) after their headline sponsors. [2]
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for " The Best of the Booker ".
Pages in category "British fiction awards" ... Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; B. ... WH Smith Literary Award;
In 2005, judges named Andrea Levy's Small Island as the "Orange of Oranges", the best novel of the preceding decade. [18] The BBC suggests that the prize forms part of the "trinity" of UK literary prizes, along with the Booker Prize and the Costa Book Awards; the sales of works by the nominees of these awards are significantly boosted. [19]