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National Book Awards

AAHHE Books of the Year Awards
Presented to Latinx/a/o authors to celebrate and recognize their contributions to higher education.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards
Each year the Academy honors over 70 composers, artists, architects, and writers.
American Book Awards
Created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.
American Book Fest
American Book Fest covers books from all sections of the publishing industry—mainstream, independent, & self-published.
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.
Arab American Book Award
Given each year to outstanding books written by or about Arab Americans
Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
Recognize works about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.
Aspen Words Literary Prize
For an influential work of fiction focused on vital contemporary issues.
Bard Fiction Prize
Awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger.
Barrios Book in Translation Prize
Seeks to highlight the artistic merit of literature in translation and recognize translators’ valuable work.
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Celebrates creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the
United States.
Center for Fiction First Novel
Created to honor the best debut fiction of the year.
CLMP Firecracker Awards
Celebrate independently published literature that makes a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide.
Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Recognizes a Jewish writer, preferably unrecognized, whose published work of fiction is deemed to have significance for American Jews.
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
Serves to inspire and recognize rising African-American fiction writers of excellence at a national level.
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Honors the very best of independent publishing each year, in over 50 categories.
Goldsmith Book Prize
Awarded to the book that best fulfills the objective of improving democratic governance through an examination of the intersection between the media, politics and public policy.
Goodreads Choice Awards
Readers vote for the best books of the year in 17 different categories.
Hillman Prize
Honors journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. (Includes a book category)
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award
Recognizing independent publishers, it includes over fifty categories recognizing excellence in book editorial and design.
Ignyte Awards
Centers on the contributions and experiences of BIPOC in Speculative Fiction
J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards
Recognizes excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern.
James Jones First Novel Fellowship
Awarded to an American writer of a novel-in-progress who has not previously published a novel.
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
Awarded to the best book-length work of prose fiction by an American woman.
John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
Recipients are American creative writers who have produced a substantial body of significant publication that displays characteristics of John Dos Passos's writing.
Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Honors a mid-career fiction writer who has earned a distinguished reputation and the approbation and gratitude of readers.
Juniper Prizes
Showcase distinctive and fresh voices; titles are voted on by University of Massachusetts faculty-judges.
Kirkus Prize
Created to celebrate the decades of discerning, thoughtful criticism Kirkus Reviews has contributed to both the publishing industry and readers at large.
Libby Book Awards
Awards in 17 different categories, nominated by an expert librarian panel and voted on by public librarians.
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
Dedicated to discovering new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing across the spectrum of book publishing.
Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
Honors a work of fiction that speaks with an “American Voice” about American experiences.
NAACP Image Awards -- Outstanding Literary Works
Awards for 8 literary categories.
National Book Awards
Celebrate the best literature in America, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.
National Book Critics Circle Awards
Honor literature published in the United States in six categories. These are the only national literary awards chosen by critics themselves.
National Jewish Book Awards
Intended to recognize authors, and encourage reading, of outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest.
National Outdoor Book Awards
Recognize and encourage outstanding writing and publishing in ten categories.
Nautilus Book Awards
Recognizes books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & sustainability, high-level wellness, and positive social change & social justice.
New American Voices Award
Recognizes recently published works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants.
Nobel Prize in Literature
Awarded to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.
North American Book Awards
Give outstanding books the opportunity to reach new readers and establish a standard of excellence trusted by readers, bookstore buyers, organizations, book clubs, and lovers of books.
PEN/Faulkner Award
Honors the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year.
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Honors a debut novel of exceptional merit by an American author who has not previously published a full-length book of fiction.
PEN/Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
Honors well-known and emerging Bay Area and international authors for excellence in multicultural literature.
PEN/Open Book Award
Award confers a prize upon an author of color who has, prior to the submitted book’s publication, not received wide media attention.
Pen America Literary Awards
Honor the most outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, and drama.
Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
Given annually to outstanding scholarly books published in the United States.
Prose Awards
Recognize the best in professional and scholarly publishing by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
Spur Awards
Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West.
Whiting Awards
Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers.
Windham Campbell Prizes
The mission of the prizes is to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
Young Lions Fiction Award
This New York Public Library prize is awarded each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories.

International Book Awards

Akutagawa Prize
(Japan)
Atlantic Book Awards
(Canada)
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
(Canada)
August Prize
(Sweden)
Aurealis Awards
(Australia)
Bialik Prize
(Israel)
Booker Prize
British Book Awards
Caine Prize for African Writing
Camões Prize
(Portugal/Brazil)
CBC Literary Prizes
Christian Book Award
Costa Book Award
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Desmond Elliott Prize
(UK and Ireland)
Diverse Book Awards
(UK and Ireland)
Dublin Literary Award
(Ireland)
Encore Award
(UK)
European Book Prize
(EU)
Europese Literatuurprijs (European Literature Award)
(Netherlands)
German Book Prize
(Germany)
Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
(UK)
Goldsmiths Prize
Gordon Burns Prize
(UK)
Governor General's Literary Awards
(Canada)
Gratiaen Prize
(Sri Lanka)
Highland Book Prize
(Scottish Highlands)
Icelandic Literary Prize
(Iceland)
Indigenous Voices Awards
(Canada)
International Booker Prize
International Prize for Arabic Fiction
James Tait Black Prizes
(UK)
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
Jhalak Prize
Madan Puraskar Prize
(Nepal)
Miles Franklin Award
(Australia)
Mo Siewcharran Prize
(UK)
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
Contemporary novels written in Arabic.
Naoki Sanjugo Prize
(Japan)
Nero Book Awards
(UK & Ireland)
Neustadt Prizes
(US)
Nigeria Prize for Literature
(Nigeria)
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nordic Council Literature Prize
NSW Premier's Literary Awards
(New South Wales)
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
PEN Pinter Prize
An Post Irish Book Awards
(Ireland)
Premios Kelvin 505 Awards
(Spain)
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
(Australia)
Prix Goncourt
(France)
Prix Goncourt Prizes
(France)
Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
(Canada)
RSL Christopher Bland Prize
(UK)
RSL Ondaatje Prize
(UK)
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Scott Moncrieff Prize
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(France)
Sheikh Zayed Book Award
(United Arab Emirates)
Stella Prize
(Australia)
Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize
(UK)
Toronto Book Awards
(Toronto, Canada)
Trillium Book Award
(Ontario, Canada)
Victorian Prize for Literature
(Australia)
Voss Literary Prize
(Australia)
Wainwright Prize
Wales Book of the Year
Waterstones Book of the Year
(UK)
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
(Australia)
Wingate Literary Prize
(UK)
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Women's Prize for Fiction
Writers' Prize
(UK)
Writers' Trust Awards
(Canada)

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