Literary Awards

I've previously listed Mystery awards and Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror awards, now it's time to do the same for literary awards. As before, if you know of any I've missed, please comment, and I'll update this entry.

• The Booker Prize is financed by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company, and awarded annually for the best full length novel in the British Commonwealth of Nations. In 2002 the Man Group became sponsor of the Booker Prize Foundation, and the prize is currently named the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
• The Caldecott Medal honors the best children's picture book of the year, and is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
• The Coretta Scott King Awards. Commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and honoring his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination in continuing the work for peace and world brotherhood, the Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by a task force of the American Library Association. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream.
• The Giller Prize awards $25,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English.
• The IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award awards £100,000 for a single work of fiction. Nominations are made by public libraries in major cities around the world.
• The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
• The Michael L. Printz Award for Teen Literature (first given in 2000, is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The honor was named for a Topeka, Kansas, school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
• The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
• The National Book Award is given by the National Book Foundation. The awards are given in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature.
• The National Book Critics Circle Award annually recognizes books in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry and criticism.
• The Newbery Medal honors the author making the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, and is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
• The Nobel Prize for Literature awarded yearly by the Nobel Foundation.
• The PEN/Faulkner Award is affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists) and is named for William Faulker. The award recognizes an outstanding fiction book selected by judges who are themselves fiction writers.
• The Pulitzer Prize. The will of Joseph Pulitzer, a crusading newspaper journalist, provided for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes. Since its inception in 1917, the prizes have recognized the best in fiction, [auto]biography, journalism, letters, drama and music.
• The Pura Belpré Award honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
• The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal honors the author of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.
• The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award established in 2004, will be given annually beginning in 2006 to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.
• The Whitbread Award is one of the longest-running and most prestigious book awards in the UK. There are six awards in total – five category awards (First Novel, Novel, Poetry, Biography, Children's Book) and, from these, one overall winner – the Whitbread Book of the Year.

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