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René Wellek Prize

The René Wellek Prize recognizes an outstanding work in the field of literary and cultural theory. The prize is given in alternate years with Harry Levin Prize. Both prizes are sponsered by the American Comparative Literature Association. Editions, collections of essays, and reference works are not eligible for these prizes. www.acla.org


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Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
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Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Rossica Translation Prize
Royal Society (Aventis) Junior Prize for Science Books
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Ruth Benedict Prize
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Scottish Book of the Year
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Sequoyah Children's Award
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Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing
Sidewise Award for Alternate History
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award
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Sophie Brody Medal
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Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
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Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Thomas Head Radall Atlantic Fiction Award
Thurber Prize for American Humor
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Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Vicky Metcalf Award
Victoria Schuck Award
Vondel Prize
W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize
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Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
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Will Eisner Best Comics-Related Book
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Willard Hurst Prize
William Dean Howells Medal
William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Wingate Literary Prize
Wolfson History Prize
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Woody Guthrie Award
World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Abraham Pais Prize
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Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
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Booktrust Teenage Prize
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry
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Boston Globe-Horn Picture Book Award
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Brittingham Prize in Poetry
Caldecott Medal
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Cheltenham Prize for Literature
Chicago Folklore Prize
Christian Gauss Award
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Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
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Elizabeth Longford Prize
Eric Hoffer Award for Art Books
European Publishers Award for Photography
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
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Forward Best Collection Poetry Prize
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George Perkins Marsh Prize
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Governor General Poetry
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H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
Harold Adams Innis Prize
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Harry Levin Prize
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J. R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Autobiography
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
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Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
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Los Angeles Times Biography Prize
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Man Booker International Prize
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Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
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Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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National Book Critics Circle Biography and Memoir / Autobiography
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National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award
National Jewish Book Awards
Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry
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Nestlé Children's Book Prize
New York City Book Awards
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Nobel Prize in Literature
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
Ondaatje Prize
Orange Prize for Fiction
Oregon Book Award for Fiction (Ken Kesey Award)
Oregon Literary Nonfiction Award (Frances Fuller Victor and Sarah Winnemucca Awards)
Orwell Prize
Ottawa Book Awards English Fiction Category
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Otto Kinkeldey Award
Pat Lowther Award
Patrick White Award
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Philip K. Dick Award
Philip Schaff Prize
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
Phoenix Award for Children's Literature
Prince of Asturias Award for Letters
Prometheus Best Novel Award
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for History
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
Ralph Bunche Award
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Rea Award
Red House Children's Book Award
Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction
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