List of literary awards

This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.

All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order)

 * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901
 * Hugo Award - since 1953
 * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966
 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970
 * International Botev Prize – since 1972
 * The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978
 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
 * America Award – since 1994
 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997
 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001
 * Ovid Prize – since 2002
 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006
 * European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009
 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009
 * Paris Literary Prize – since 2010
 * KONS International Literary Award – since 2011
 * Grand Prix of Literary Associations (English, French, and Spanish) – since 2013
 * Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award – since 2013
 * Europese Literatuurprijs (European Literature Award) – since 2011
 * Cilento Poetry Prize (International Literary Award) – since 2017

Arabic

 * Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature
 * International Prize for Arabic Fiction
 * Katara Prize for Arabic Novel
 * King Faisal International Prize for Arabic language and literature
 * Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
 * Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Bengali

 * Rabindra Puraskar
 * Bankim Puraskar
 * Ananda Puraskar
 * Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
 * Bangla Academy Award

Chinese

 * Mao Dun Literature Prize
 * Lu Xun Literary Prize
 * Lao She Literary Award
 * Dream of the Red Chamber Award
 * Shi Nai'an Literary Prize
 * Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
 * Bing Xin Children's Literature Award

English

 * International Dublin Literary Award
 * Goldsmiths Prize
 * Next Generation Indie Book Awards
 * Booker Prize
 * The Warwick Prize for Writing
 * International Rubery Book Award
 * Montreal International Poetry Prize
 * Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes
 * Caine Prize
 * Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
 * International Booker Prize
 * Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

German

 * Georg Büchner Prize – for the overall literary oeuvre
 * Sigmund Freud Prize – for scientific prose
 * German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year
 * Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation
 * Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
 * Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German
 * Kleist Prize – (first awarded in 1912)

Gujarati

 * Kumar Suvarna Chandrak
 * Narmad Suvarna Chandrak
 * Premanand Suvarna Chandrak
 * Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
 * Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar
 * Yuva Gaurav Puraskar (conferred to young authors)

Hebrew

 * Bialik Prize
 * Sapir Prize
 * Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)

Italian

 * Strega Prize
 * Premio Campiello
 * Premio Bancarella
 * Bagutta Prize
 * Urania award (Science Fiction)
 * Cilento Poetry Prize

Kannada

 * Rashtrakavi
 * Nrupatunga Award
 * Kanaka Shree
 * Pampa Award

Malayalam

 * Edasseri Award
 * Ezhuthachan Puraskaram
 * Kerala Sahitya Academy Award
 * Muttathu Varkey Award
 * Odakkuzhal Award
 * Padmarajan Award
 * Vallathol Award
 * Vayalar Award

Marathi

 * Vinda Karandikar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar

Meitei (Manipuri)

 * Sahitya Akademi Award for Meitei
 * Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Meitei
 * Yuva Puraskar for Meitei

Odia

 * Odisha Sahitya Academy Award

Portuguese

 * Camões Prize
 * Prémio Leya
 * Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature (from 2007 onwards)
 * São Paulo Prize for Literature

Spanish

 * Miguel de Cervantes Prize
 * Rómulo Gallegos Prize
 * Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize – female authors
 * Premio Planeta
 * Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
 * Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa – since 2007
 * Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize

Tamil

 * Vishnupuram Award

African

 * Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation
 * Brunel University African Poetry Prize
 * Caine Prize
 * Etisalat Prize for Literature
 * Golden Baobab Prize
 * Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
 * Lotus Prize for Literature (discontinued)
 * Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (discontinued)
 * Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry
 * Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa

Asian

 * Man Asian Literary Prize
 * DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
 * SAARC Literary Award
 * Kiriyama Prize – for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia; 1996–2008

Caribbean literature

 * Casa de las Américas Prize
 * OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Commonwealth

 * Booker Prize – winners and shortlisted authors
 * Commonwealth Short Story Prize
 * Commonwealth Writers' Prize (discontinued)
 * Encore Award – since 1990
 * John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

European Union

 * European Union Prize for Literature
 * European Book Prize

Nordic

 * Nordic Council's Literature Prize
 * Prisma

American literature

 * Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
 * Ambassador Book Award
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals in Belles Lettres, Criticism and Essays
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry
 * American Book Awards
 * Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
 * Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
 * Arab American Book Award
 * Arthur Rense Prize
 * Asian American Literary Awards
 * Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
 * Bancroft Prize
 * Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
 * The Best American Poetry series
 * Best Translated Book Award
 * Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
 * Bollingen Prize
 * Bram Stoker Award
 * Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
 * Christopher Hewitt Award
 * Colorado Book Award
 * The Dana Award
 * Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
 * Dos Passos Prize
 * Drue Heinz Literature Prize
 * Edgar Allan Poe Award
 * Edward Lewis Wallant Award
 * Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
 * Fabri Literary Prize
 * Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
 * Frost Medal
 * Goldsmith Book Prize
 * Gotham Book Prize
 * Gregory Kolovakos Award
 * Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
 * Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
 * Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
 * Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
 * Hopwood Award
 * Hugo Award
 * James Duval Phelan Award
 * James Jones First Novel Award
 * James Laughlin Award
 * Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
 * Jackson Poetry Prize
 * The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
 * Joseph Henry Jackson Award
 * Kate Tufts Discovery Award
 * Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
 * Lambda Literary Award
 * Lannan Literary Awards
 * Los Angeles Times Book Prize
 * Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
 * Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
 * Minnesota Book Award
 * National Book Award
 * National Book Critics Circle Award
 * National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
 * National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
 * National Outdoor Book Award
 * National Poetry Series
 * National Translation Award
 * Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
 * Nebula Award for Science Fiction
 * Newbery Medal
 * The New Criterion Poetry Prize
 * O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
 * Oregon Book Award
 * Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications
 * Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
 * PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
 * PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
 * PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
 * PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work)
 * PEN/Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins, for writers of color)
 * PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
 * PEN Translation Fund Grants
 * Poets' Prize
 * Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
 * Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology
 * Pulitzer Prize for
 * History
 * Fiction
 * Poetry
 * Drama
 * General Non-Fiction
 * Pushcart Prize
 * Quill Awards
 * Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
 * Reference and User Services Association awards
 * Robert Olen Butler Prize
 * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
 * Scott Moncrieff Prize
 * Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
 * Short Story Award
 * Sophie Brody Award
 * Spur Award
 * St. Francis College Literary Prize
 * St. Louis Literary Award
 * Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
 * Stonewall Book Award
 * The Story Prize
 * Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
 * Wallace Stevens Award
 * Walt Whitman Award
 * William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
 * Whiting Awards
 * Willis Barnstone Translation Prize

Australian literature

 * Aurealis Award – awarded annually for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award – for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35
 * Miles Franklin Award – for the best Australian published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases
 * Patrick White Award
 * New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
 * Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
 * South Australian Literary Awards
 * Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes
 * Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
 * Victorian Premier's Literary Award
 * Prime Minister's Literary Awards
 * Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards
 * ACT Book of the Year

Austrian literature

 * Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
 * Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
 * Erich Fried Prize
 * Franz Kafka Prize
 * Austrian State Prize for European Literature
 * Anton Wildgans Prize

Bangladesh literature

 * Bangla Academy Award

Botswana literature

 * Bessie Head Literature Awards

Brazilian literature

 * Prêmio Jabuti
 * Prêmio Machado de Assis
 * São Paulo Prize for Literature

British literature

 * Author's Club First Novel Award
 * Betty Trask Award
 * Booker Prize
 * British Book Awards – the "Nibbies"
 * Chancellor's Gold Medal
 * Commonwealth Short Story Prize
 * Commonwealth Writers' Prize
 * Dundee International Book Prize
 * Duff Cooper Prize
 * Forward Prize
 * Hawthornden Prize
 * Hessell-Tiltman Prize
 * International Rubery Book Award
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize
 * John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
 * Meyer-Whitworth Award
 * Newdigate Prize
 * Orange Prize for Fiction
 * Orwell Prize
 * Samuel Johnson Prize
 * SI Leeds Literary Prize
 * Somerset Maugham Award
 * T. S. Eliot Prize
 * Waverton Good Read Award
 * Costa Book Awards (discontinued in 2021)
 * 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.

Bulgarian literature

 * Vick Prize

Canadian literature

 * Arthur Ellis Award
 * Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
 * Booker Prize
 * Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature
 * Canada Reads
 * Canadian Jewish Book Awards
 * Carol Bolt Award
 * Commonwealth Writers' Prize
 * Danuta Gleed Literary Award
 * Dayne Ogilvie Prize
 * Doug Wright Award
 * Edna Staebler Award
 * Geoffrey Bilson Award
 * Gerald Lampert Award
 * Griffin Poetry Prize
 * Governor General's Award
 * Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition
 * Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
 * Innis-Gérin Medal
 * John Glassco Translation Prize
 * Journey Prize
 * Kobzar Literary Award
 * Lane Anderson Award
 * Lorne Pierce Medal
 * McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award
 * McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
 * Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
 * Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
 * Norma Fleck Award
 * Pat Lowther Award
 * Percy Janes First Novel Award
 * Prix Anne-Hébert
 * Prix Athanase-David
 * Prix du Cercle du livre de France
 * Prix Ringuet
 * RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
 * ReLit Awards
 * Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
 * Ryerson Fiction Award (discontinued)
 * Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
 * Shaughnessy Cohen Award
 * Stephen Leacock Award
 * Sunburst Award
 * TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
 * Thomas Head Raddall Award
 * Trillium Award
 * Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
 * Winterset Award
 * Wright Awards
 * Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award
 * Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award

Chilean literature

 * Chilean National Prize for Literature

Chinese literature

 * Lu Xun Literary Prize
 * Mao Dun Literature Prize
 * Newman Prize for Chinese Literature

Costa Rican literature

 * Premio Editorial Costa Rica

Croatian language

 * Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani
 * Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
 * Nagrada Matice Hrvatske

Czech literature

 * Magnesia Litera Prize

Dutch literature

 * Libris Literatuur Prijs

Ecuadorian literature

 * Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize
 * Premio Eugenio Espejo

Estonian literature

 * Friedebert Tuglas short story award
 * Juhan Smuul literary award

Finnish literature

 * Finlandia Prize for literature
 * Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
 * Runeberg Prize for literature
 * Thanks for the Book Award for literature

French literature

 * Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
 * Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
 * Prix Alain-Fournier
 * Prix Décembre
 * Prix des Deux-Magots
 * Prix Femina
 * Prix Fénéon
 * Prix de Flore
 * Prix du roman Fnac
 * Prix Goncourt
 * Prix Interallié
 * Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
 * Prix Médicis
 * Prix Mystère de la critique
 * Prix de la Page 112
 * Prix du Quai des Orfèvres
 * Prix Renaudot
 * Candide Preis (the only German-French Literary award)

Georgian literature

 * Shota Rustaveli State Prize

German literature

 * Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
 * Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
 * Candide Preis – German-French literary award in memory of Voltaire's novella Candide – since 1995
 * Carl Zuckmayer Medal – annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer
 * Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
 * Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin
 * German Book Prize – awarded annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair for the best German language novel of the year
 * Georg Büchner Prize – awarded annually by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in memory of Georg Büchner
 * Goethe Prize – awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; since 1927
 * Hanseatic Goethe Prize
 * Heinrich Heine Prize
 * Hermann-Hesse-Preis
 * Hans Fallada Prize – biennial literary prize in memory of Hans Fallada
 * Heinrich Mann Prize
 * Hermann Kesten Medal
 * Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
 * Kassel Literary Prize
 * Kleist Prize
 * Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis – annual science fiction award in memory of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
 * Leipzig Book Fair Prize
 * Nelly Sachs Prize
 * Roswitha Prize
 * Schiller Memorial Prize
 * Toucan Prize

Hungarian literature

 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – for poets and translators; since 1997
 * Baumgarten Prize
 * Kossuth Prize

Icelandic literature

 * Icelandic Literary Prize

Indian literature

 * Jnanpith Award
 * Sahitya Akademi Award
 * Pampa Award
 * Saraswati Samman
 * Kalaimamani Award
 * Yuva Puraskar (conferred to young authors)
 * Vinda Karandikar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar
 * Jibanananda Das Award
 * Tagore Award
 * Assam Valley Literary Award
 * All India Poetry Prize

Indonesian literature

 * Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition

Iranian literature

 * Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards
 * Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award

Irish literature

 * Irish Book Awards
 * The Francis MacManus Award

Israeli literature

 * Bialik Prize
 * Geffen Award
 * Jerusalem Prize – since 1963
 * Sapir Prize
 * Yitzhak Sadeh Prize

Italian literature

 * Bagutta Prize
 * Premio Bancarella
 * Premio Campiello
 * Premio Strega
 * Premio Urania
 * Viareggio Prize
 * Flaiano Prize

Japanese literature

 * Akutagawa Prize
 * Bungei Prize
 * Dazai Osamu Prize
 * Edogawa Rampo Prize
 * Honkaku Mystery Award
 * Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
 * Kikuchi Kan Prize (Kan Kikuchi Shō)
 * Mishima Yukio Prize
 * Mystery Writers of Japan Award
 * Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
 * Noma Prize for Literature
 * Ōe Kenzaburō Prize
 * Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001
 * Tanizaki Prize
 * Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
 * Yomiuri Prize for Literature

Luxembourgian literature

 * Batty Weber Prize
 * Servais Prize

Malaysian literature

 * Malaysia Premier's Literary Award
 * Malaysian National Laureate

Mexican literature

 * Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura
 * Xavier Villaurrutia Award
 * FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages

Nepalese Literature

 * Madan Puraskar

New Zealand literature

 * Esther Glen Award – for children's literature
 * Joy Cowley Award – for children's literature
 * Sir Julius Vogel Award – for science fiction and fantasy
 * New Zealand Post Book Awards
 * Ngaio Marsh Award
 * Margaret Mahy Award
 * Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Nigerian literature

 * Nigeria Prize for Literature
 * Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
 * 9mobile Prize for Literature
 * Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing – for works in the Hausa language

Norwegian literature

 * Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize
 * NBU-prisen
 * Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl
 * Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression
 * Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature

Philippine literature

 * Palanca Award
 * Philippine National Book Awards

Polish literature

 * Angelus Award
 * Found in Translation Award
 * Gdynia Literary Prize
 * Janusz A. Zajdel Award for science fiction
 * Kościelski Award
 * Nautilus Award
 * Nike Award
 * Paszport Polityki for Literature
 * Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
 * Silesius Poetry Award
 * Śląkfa Award
 * Wisława Szymborska Award

Portuguese literature

 * Prémio Camões

Russian literature

 * Solzhenitsyn Prize
 * Russian Booker Prize
 * Pushkin Prize
 * Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

Serbian literature

 * Isidora Sekulić Award
 * NIN Award

Singaporean literature

 * Epigram Books Fiction Prize
 * Singapore Literature Prize

Slovene literature

 * Fabula Award
 * Jenko Award
 * KONS International Literary Award
 * Kresnik Award
 * Levstik Award
 * Prešeren Award
 * Prešeren Foundation Award
 * Rožanc Award
 * Veronika Award
 * Vilenica Prize

South African literature

 * Alan Paton Award
 * Alba Bouwer Prize
 * Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
 * ATKV Prose Prize
 * Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
 * C.P. Hoogenhout Award
 * Central News Agency Literary Award
 * David Higham Prize for Fiction
 * Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
 * Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
 * Eugène Marais Prize
 * Hertzog Prize
 * Ingrid Jonker Prize
 * M-Net Literary Awards
 * Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
 * Media24 Books Literary Awards
 * Olive Schreiner Prize
 * Percy FitzPatrick Award
 * Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
 * South African Literary Awards
 * Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards
 * The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
 * Thomas Pringle Award
 * University of Johannesburg Prize
 * W.A Hofmeyr Prize

South Korean literature

 * Dong-in Literary Award
 * Hyundae Munhak Award
 * Manhae Prize
 * Yi Sang Literary Award
 * So-Wol Poetry Prize
 * Park Kyung-ni Prize
 * Ho-Am Prize in the Arts

Spanish literature

 * Miguel de Cervantes Prize
 * Premio Nadal
 * Premio Planeta
 * Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
 * Rómulo Gallegos Prize
 * Premio Nacional de Literatura
 * Premio Azorín
 * Premio de la Crítica
 * Premi Prudenci Bertrana
 * Prince of Asturias Awards – since 1981

Sri Lanka

 * Gratiaen Prize
 * State Literary Award

Swedish literature

 * Augustpriset
 * De Nios Stora Pris
 * Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy

Swiss literature

 * Max Frisch Prize
 * Solothurner Literaturpreis
 * Swiss Book Prize

Thai literature

 * S.E.A.Write Award
 * Sriburapha Award

Turkish literature

 * Erdal Oz Literature Award
 * Sedat Simavi Literature Award

Ukrainian literature

 * Shevchenko National Prize – since 1961

Venezuelan literature

 * Adriano González León Biennial Novel Prize

Zimbabwean literature

 * National Arts Merit Awards

Children's literature

 * Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) – since 1922
 * Carnegie Medal (UK) – since 1936
 * Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration – since 1938
 * Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (Australia) – since 1946
 * Governor General's Award for English language children's literature (Canada) – since 1949
 * Jane Addams Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1953
 * Children's Literature Legacy Award (USA) – since 1954, formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
 * Hans Christian Andersen Award (international) – since 1956
 * Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) – since 1956
 * Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957
 * Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Netherlands) – since 1964
 * Guardian Award (UK) – since 1967
 * Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968
 * 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
 * Prix Sorcières (France) – since 1986
 * Governor General's Award for French language children's literature (Canada) – since 1987
 * KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards (Ireland) – since 1990
 * Gelett burgess children's book award (USA) – since 2010
 * Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature (USA) – since 1991
 * The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland) – since 1995
 * Angus Book Award (UK) – since 1996
 * Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA) – since 1996
 * Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK) – since 1996
 * Children's Laureate (UK) – since 1999
 * Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA) – since 2000
 * Sibert Medal for informational books (USA) – since 2001
 * Mildred L. Batchelder Award (USA)
 * Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan) – since 2001
 * Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (international) – since 2003
 * NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature – since 2003

Food and drink

 * Langhe Ceretto Prize (international) – since 1991

History

 * Cundill History Prize for historical non-fiction – since 2008
 * Duff Cooper Prize — since 1956
 * Wolfson History Prize – since 1972

Horror fiction

 * Bram Stoker Award – for superior achievement in horror writing, since 1987
 * Shirley Jackson Award – for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic, since 2007.
 * Lord Ruthven Award – for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature – since 1989

Military fiction and Military history

 * Colby Award for a first work of fiction or non-fiction – since 1999
 * Pritzker Military Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing – since 2007
 * W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction – since 1997

Mystery: crime fiction and detective fiction

 * Agatha Award
 * Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
 * Anthony Award
 * Arthur Ellis Awards by the Crime Writers of Canada
 * Ayukawa Tetsuya Award
 * Barry Award
 * Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
 * Crime Writers' Association awards:
 * Cartier Diamond Dagger
 * Dagger in the Library
 * Dagger of Daggers
 * Duncan Lawrie International Dagger
 * Gold Dagger
 * Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
 * Short Story Award
 * Davitt Award
 * Glass Key award
 * Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
 * Hammett Prize
 * Honkaku Mystery Award – awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
 * Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize
 * Left Coast Crime awards
 * Lefty award
 * The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery
 * Macavity Award
 * Martin Beck Award
 * Mephisto Prize
 * Mystery Writers of America awards:
 * Edgar Award
 * Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
 * Mystery Writers of Japan Award
 * Edogawa Rampo Prize
 * Ned Kelly Awards
 * Shamus Award
 * Staunch Book Prize
 * Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

Romance Fiction

 * RITA Award
 * Rona Award

Speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy)

 * Hugo Award – since 1955
 * Nebula Award – since 1965
 * Ditmar Award (Australia) – since 1969
 * BSFA award – since 1970
 * Seiun Award – since 1970
 * Locus Award – since 1971
 * Mythopoeic Awards – awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis – since 1971
 * Prix Tour-Apollo Award – since 1972
 * John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel – since 1973
 * John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction – since 1973
 * World Fantasy Award – since 1975
 * Paul Harland Prize (Netherlands) – since 1976
 * Prometheus Award – best Libertarian SF – since 1979
 * Nihon SF Taisho Award – since 1980
 * Prix Aurora Award (Canada) – since 1980
 * Prix Rosny-Aîné (France) – since 1980
 * Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany) – since 1981
 * Philip K. Dick Award – since 1982
 * Compton Crook Award – best first time novel in genre in a year, since 1983
 * Janusz A. Zajdel Award (Poland) – since 1984
 * Writers of the Future – contest for new authors, since 1985
 * Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) – since 1986
 * Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987
 * Japan Fantasy Novel Award – since 1989
 * Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand) – since 1989
 * Urania Award (Italy) – since 1989
 * SFRA Pioneer Award – best critical essay-length work, since 1990
 * Tiptree award – since 1991
 * Chandler Award (Australia) – since 1992
 * Sidewise Award for Alternate History – since 1995
 * Aurealis Award (Australia) – since 1995
 * Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service – promotion of SF teaching and study, etc., since 1996
 * Endeavour Award (Pacific Northwest) – since 1999
 * Nautilus Award (Poland) – since 2003
 * WSFA Small Press Award – since 2007
 * Tähtifantasia Award (Finland) – since 2007
 * Kitschies (UK) – since 2009

General

 * William Hill Sports Book of the Year (UK)
 * British Sports Book Awards (UK)
 * PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (US)

Baseball

 * CASEY Award (US)
 * Jerry Malloy Book Prize (US)
 * Seymour Medal (US)
 * Dave Moore Award (US)

Biography

 * Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.

Miscellaneous

 * Goodreads Choice Awards

Awards for literary translation

 * Gregory Kolovakos Award – PEN America : U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic whose work ... extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience
 * PEN Translation Prize – awarded annually for a translation from any language into English.
 * Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize – awarded annually for a book-length translation from any language into English.
 * Rossica Translation Prize – awarded biennially by Academia Rossica to a translation from Russian into English.
 * National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award
 * National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association
 * Popescu Prize – awarded biennially for a translation of poetry from a European language into English. Awarded by the Poetry Society.
 * Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – annually awarded to a translation of a poem from any language into English.
 * Scott Moncrieff Prize – awarded annually for French to English translation.
 * Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation – awarded annually for Arabic to English literary translation.
 * 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.
 * Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize – open to submissions from translators aged between 18 and 34, awarded annually, focusing on a different language every year.
 * International Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
 * Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize – since 1996
 * Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

Awards for literary criticism

 * Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing – awarded annually for literary criticism as one of the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
 * Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism – awarded annually for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust.
 * Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism – awarded to Malayalam language literary criticism, as a category of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award