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Literary prizes and book awards
News
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
- Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards added
- Children’s literary prizes
- New Zealand literary prizes
- Writing prizes (essays and unpublished works)
- International prizes including
Literary prize calendar — lists when prizes are awarded.
New Zealand
- Kathleen Grattan Award
- New Zealand Post Book Awards (before 2010, the awards were known as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards)
- Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
- Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
- Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement
- Prize in Modern Letters
- Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror)
- Wattie Book Awards
Writing Prizes
These are awards for essays and/or unpublished works.
- BNZ Literary Awards (formerly the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards)
- Landfall Essay Competition
- Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
- Re-Draft (open to any teenage writer in New Zealand)
International
Authors
Prizes awarded for the author’s body of work.
Fiction
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread)
- Dylan Thomas Prize
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
- Lambda Literary Awards
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Man Booker Prize
- National Book Awards (USA)
- National Book Critics Circle Awards
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
- Prix Goncourt (French prose)
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)
Genre fiction - Mystery, horror, crime, fantasy and science fiction
- Anthony Awards (mystery)
- Bram Stoker Awards (horror)
- Crime Writers’ Association Awards
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards (mystery)
- Hugo Awards for Science Fiction
- Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic literature
- Nebula Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
- Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror by New Zealanders)
- World Fantasy Awards
Lists
- Granta Best of Young British Novelists 1993 and 2003
- Notable Books
New Writers
- Betty Trask Awards
- Commonwealth Writers Prize (includes Best First Book)
- The Costa First Novel Award
- The CWA New Blood Dagger (mystery/crime)
- Dylan Thomas Prize (restricted to authors under 30)
- Guardian First Book Award (was Guardian Fiction Award)
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
- Orange Broadband Award for New Writers
Non-fiction
- BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
- The British Academy Book Prize (humanities/social sciences)
- The Costa Biography Award
- The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
- International Einhard Prize for Biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
- The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Non-Fiction
- Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic scholarship
- National Book Awards - Non-Fiction
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Pulitzer Prizes (Biography & Autobiography, History, General non-fiction)
- Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (formerly Aventis)
- Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)
