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The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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 ".
The Carnegie Medal for Writing, established in 1936 as the Carnegie Medal, is an annual British literary award for English-language books for children or young adults.It is conferred upon the author by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), who in 2016 called it "the UK's oldest and most prestigious book award for children's writing".
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Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction; Duff Cooper Prize; Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit; James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for biography
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010. [1] At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the UK. [2] The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who is generally considered the originator of historical fiction with the novel Waverley in 1814.
Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970 Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales, UK) – since 1976 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (UK) – 1985–2007
The David Cohen Prize for Literature (est. 1993) is a biennial British literary award given to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language. [1] The prize is funded by the John S. Cohen Foundation and administered by Arts Council England. [2]
American literary award 2009 Norman Mailer: United States of America: Q7052565: Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction: annual British literary award for historical novels since 2010 2010 25000 United Kingdom: Q960538: Franz-Hessel-Preis: annual German-French literary award 2010 Franz Hessel: 10000 France Germany: Q1445789: Ngaio Marsh Award ...