Literary Awards
There are a wide array of literary awards. Learn more about the winners of some of the most popular awards.
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.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award awards £100,000 for a single work of fiction. Nominations are made by public libraries in major cities around the world.
The contenders for the new Man Booker International Prize 2005 were announced on February 18. The £60,000 prize is awarded based an author's body of work rather than a single book.
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 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.
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.
