30 Literary Awards Every Bookworm Should Know About

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the most renowned literary awards in the world. It was established in 1917 and is awarded to writers who create an exceptional contribution to American Literature.

The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually for the year’s best book in the English language, relating to the UK, Ireland, and the Commonwealth.

The National Book Award

The National Book Award recognizes exceptional literary works written by American authors.

The Hugo Award

The Hugo award is presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year.

The Edgar Allan Poe Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Award or the Edgars are awarded each year by the Mystery Writers of America in prominent categories such as Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Young Adult.

The Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, also commonly referred to as the Man Booker Prize, is a distinguished literary prize awarded annually for the best novel written in English.

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is awarded annually for a distinguished volume of original verse.

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Award is presented annually to the most exceptional books published in English in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, and criticism.

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an extremely high-profile honor that is awarded annually to the author of the world’s most exceptional English language literary work.

The Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction is an annual literary award that recognizes the excellence, originality, and accessibility of the best novels written by female authors.

The Bram Stoker Award

The most revered of horror literary awards, the Bram Stoker Award is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association for distinguished achievement in the horror genre’s field.

The Orange Prize for Fiction

The Orange Prize for Fiction was established in 1996 and has ever since had its focus on the exceptional writing of different forms of fiction written by women.

The Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards for “most-cherished books” belong to five novel genres: First Novel, Novel, Poetry, Children’s, and Biography.

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually to American writers with the best work of fiction published during the previous year.

The International Dylan Thomas Prize

The International Dylan Thomas Prize represents the literary brilliance embodied in poetry books, given to authors aged under thirty during the given year.

The Carnegie Medal

The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to outstanding works of British children’s literature.

The International Booker Prize

This Booker literary award celebrates exceptional translated literature, from a diversity of geopolitical origins combined with high literary quality.

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is presented as two prizes: a trophy named the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Regional award per area (Africa, Caribbean, Canada and South Asia).

The Edgar Wallace Award

The Edgar Wallace Award specializes in awarding gripping crime fiction written by someone whose high-quality competence has only recently come to notice.

The Nautilus Book Award

The Nautilus Book Award dwells in highly regarded, highly quality genre literary works, whether involving self-help, spirituality, nature, sustainability or social science.

The National Jewish Book Award

The National Jewish Book Award celebrates distinguished Jewish writing consisting of a Decade category as well as twenty-two other genres entailing Judaic subjects.

The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award was originally established in Florida in 1976, with Ernest’s wife Greg Hemingway in charge of all sorts of active collaborations dealing with Ernest’s nonprofit arrangements during his lifetime.

The Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal falls upon extraordinary contributions of outstanding American children fiction.

The Agatha Award

The Agatha Award celebrates best cozy fictional sleuthing characterized by amateur gumshoes, scholars or private investigators pitted against skillful mystery cases.

The Hugo Award

The Hugo Award, an accolade devoted to excellent science-fiction books and edited anthologies, is one of many awards presented every year at one of America’s greatest literary gatherings, World Continuing SFF Association WorldCon Celebrations.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is another exceedingly high-profile literature honor awarded annually in the UK for exceptional books written in English, both within the categories of fiction and biographies.

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize sets ‘funny literature’ – described as “comic prose”, starring Greg Howells’ unforgettable comic duo of PG Wodehouse and his deceased pet pig on top of the magazine page.

The Giller Prize

Named to honor at Bradford Giller, it‘s awarded annually for Canada‘s very best literary talent, whether exhibited within the compositions of novel-length literary fiction or short story compositions.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize

The Giller Prize serves as an unrivalled honor presented annually since 1994 to entrepreneurial Canadian novelists or short-operating story authors of quality value. The award used to equate to $100,000 previously but this fell to $50,000 by the 2016 edition.