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The most engaging listing of literary and book awards on the net. Over 350 book awards and prizes in all genres complete with winning books, authors, descriptions and book cover images. Many hard to find and neglected book awards in addition to the most popular and well known.
    


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R. Bruce Elder wins 2009 Robert Motherwell Book Award
5/12/2009
Jane Mayer wins 2009 Helen Bernstein Award for The Dark Side
5/7/2009
Cormac McCarthy wins lifetime achievement, PEN/Saul Bellow Award
4/26/2009
Louise Erdrich's 2009 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winning book: The Plague of Doves
4/15/2009
Climatologist David Archer wins 2009 Walter P. Kistler Book Award for The Long Thaw
3/26/2009
Avi Sharon wins Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for C. P. Cavafy's Selected Poems
3/22/2009
Thomas G. Andrews wins 2009 Bancroft Prize for Killing for Coal
2/27/2009
2009 PEN/Faulkner Award to Joseph O'Neill for Netherland
2/21/2009
Stephanie E. Smallwood wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Saltwater Slavery
1/28/2009
2008 Costa Book of the Year Award to Sebastian Barry for The Secret Scripture
1/11/2009
MLA Awards First Book Prize to Dana Luciano for Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
1/6/2009
Costa Book Award to Diana Athill, aged 91
12/9/2008
Guardian First Book Award for The Rest Is Noise
11/27/2008
National Book Award winner Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello
11/3/2008
Mohammed Hanif on Guardian First Book Award for A Case of Exploding Mangoes
10/18/2008
Indian writer, Aravind Adiga, wins 2008 Man Booker Prize
10/10/2008
French novelist J. M. G. Le Clezio wins Nobel Prize for Literature
9/3/2008
Edward Alwood wins Tankard Book Award for Dark Days in the Newsroom
8/24/2008
Britian's oldest book prize to Rosalind Belben for Our Horses in Egypt
8/10/2008
Michelle De Kretser wins New South Wales Premier's Book of the Year Award for The Lost Dog
7/30/2008
Kay Ryan announced as new Poet Laureate
7/16/2008
Salman Rushdie knighted as Best of the Booker Prize winners
7/4/2008
No consolation prize for Tom Bullough whose book, The Claude Glass, was mistakenly announced as the 2008 Wales Book of the Year
7/2/2008
Wales Book of the Year to Dannie Abse for The Presence
6/28/2008
Margaret Atwood wins Prince of Asturias Award for Letters
6/19/2008
Royal Society Prize for Science Books goes to Mark Lynas for Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
6/13/2008
Rawi Hage wins wins the €100,000 Impac Dublin literary award for debut novel De Niro's Game
6/9/2008
Rose Tremain captures Orange Broadband Prize
6/2/2008
Red House Children's Book Award to Derek Landy for Skulduggery Pleasant
5/5/2008
Graham Robb wins 2008 Ondaatje Prize
5/2/2008
Raja Shehadeh wins Orwell Prize for Palestinian Walks
4/22/2008
2008 Krasnza-Krausz Book Awards announced
4/12/2008
Francis Parkman Prize to Jean Edward Smith for FDR
4/3/2008
Michael Billington wins Theatre Book Prize for The State of the Nation
4/1/2008
Marcus Rediker wins the 2008 Merle Curti Award for The Slave Ship
3/27/2008
Indra Sinha wins the South East Asia and South Pacific regional Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Prize for Animal's People
3/8/2008
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Harriet A. Washington for Medical Apartheid
3/5/2008
2008 Lionel Gelber Prize to Paul Collier for The Bottom Billion
3/1/2008
Robert Kirsch Award to Maxine Hong Kingston
1/23/2008
Coif Book Award to Holly Brewer
1/22/2008
2007 TS Eliot prize to Sean O'Brien
12/16/2007
William T. Vollman receives $250,000 Strauss Living Award
12/5/2007
Juan Gelman wins Cervantes Prize
11/29/2007
Dave Margoshes triumphs at the at the 15th annual Saskatchewan Book Awards
11/7/2007
Elizabeth Hay wins Giller Prize
11/2/2007
Marcus Sedgwick wins 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize for My Swordhand is Singing
10/26/2007
A Noble Revolt is chosen for the 2007 Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Award
10/5/2007
Alice Notley wins the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
10/5/2007
Sean O'Brien wins third Forward Poetry Prize
9/26/2007
Frank O'Connor Award to Miranda July for No One Belongs Here More Than You
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Book Awards by Category by years awarded

   
Anti-racism and multiculturalism

      American Book Awards
      Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
      Asian American Literary Award
      Gustaf Meyers Outstanding Book Award
      Ralph Bunche Award

   
Art

      Charles C. Eldredge Prize
      Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
      George Wittenborn Award
      Robert Motherwell Book Award

   
Assorted

      New York City Book Awards
      Trillium Award

   
Biography

      Ambassador Book Award in Biography and Autobiography
      Costa (Whitebread) Biography Award
      Elizabeth Longford Prize
      J. R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Autobiography
      James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
      Koret Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, and Literary Studies
      Los Angeles Times Biography Prize
      National Book Critics Circle Biography and Memoir / Autobiography
      Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

   
Children

      Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature
      Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
      Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
      Boston Globe-Horn Picture Book Award
      Branford Boase Award
      Caldecott Medal
      Carnegie Medal
      Coretta Scott King Book Award
      Costa (Whitebread) Children's Book Award
      Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
      Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Kids
      Governor General Children's Illustration
      Governor General Children's Literature
      Guardian Award
      Jane Addams Children's Book Awards (for older children)
      Jane Addams Children's Book Awards (for younger children)
      Josette Frank Award
      Kate Greenaway Medal
      Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
      Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation
      Mildred L. Batchelder Award
      Nestlé Children's Book Prize
      Newbery Medal
      Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
      Phoenix Award for Children's Literature
      Red House Children's Book Award
      Royal Society (Aventis) Junior Prize for Science Books
      Saskatchewan Children's Literature Award
      Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
      Sequoyah Children's Award
      Vicky Metcalf Award

   
Comics

      Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Graphic Novels
      Will Eisner Best Comics-Related Book
      Will Eisner Best U.S. Edition of International Material

   
Current Events

      Charles C. Eldredge Prize
      Helen Bernstein Book Award
      Lettre Ulysses Award
      Los Angeles Times Current Interest Book Prize
      TR Fyvel Book Award

   
Drama

      George Freedley Memorial Award
      Governor General Drama
      Joe A. Callaway Prize
      Kurt Weill Book Prize
      Pulitzer Prize for Drama
      Theatre Book Prize

   
Fiction

      Age Fiction Award
      Ambassador Book Award in Fiction
      BCALA Fiction Award
      BCALA First Novelist Award
      Bellwether Prize
      Costa (Whitebread) First Novel Award
      Costa (Whitebread) Novel Award
      Ferro-Grumley Awards
      Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction
      Governor General Fiction
      Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
      Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
      International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
      James Fenimore Cooper Prize
      James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
      Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
      Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction
      Lannon Literary Fiction Awards
      Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
      Man Booker International Prize
      Man Booker Prize
      Matt Cohen Prize
      National Book Award for Fiction
      National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award
      Orange Prize for Fiction
      Oregon Book Award for Fiction (Ken Kesey Award)
      Ottawa Book Awards English Fiction Category
      PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
      Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
      Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
      Saskatchewan Fiction Award
      Thomas Head Radall Atlantic Fiction Award

   
Film

      Kovács Book Award
      Scripter Award
      Theatre Library Association Award

   
Gay and Lesbian

      Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
      Ferro-Grumley Awards
      Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
      Lambda Literary Awards
      Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
      Scotiabank Giller Prize
      Stonewall Book Awards
      Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

   
Geography

      AAG Globe Book Award
      AAG Meridian Book Award
      John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

   
History

      Albert C. Outler Prize
      Albert J. Beveridge Award
      Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
      Bancroft Prize
      Dunning Prize
      Edelstein Prize
      Francis Parkman Prize
      Frederick Douglass Book Prize
      Frederick Jackson Turner Award
      George Perkins Marsh Prize
      Gladstone Book Prize
      Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
      James S. Donnelly Prize
      Koret Jewish Book Award for History
      Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
      Lincoln Prize