Literary Awards

The National Book Awards are given to recognize achievement in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. Here are the past ten years' winners from the Fiction category.

The Man Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. This is a list of the previous 10 years' Booker Prize Winners.

The Giller Prize awards $25,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English.

Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is granted not for a single book, but for an author’s entire body of work, and hence usually goes to a well-established writer. Here are the past ten years' winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.