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Top 10 Most Recent National Book Award Winners in Fiction
The National Book Awards are given to recognize achievement in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. The winners are selected by five person independent judging panel for each genre and receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture. The National Book award is one of North America's most coveted literary prizes. Here are the past ten years' winners from the Fiction category.
Top 10 Past Booker Prize Winners
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. It is not only one of literature's highest honors but quite lucrative as the winner takes home £50,000. This is a list of the previous 10 years' Booker Prize Winners.
Top 10 Most Recent Nobel Laureates in Literature
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.
Top 10 Most Recent PEN/Faulkner Award Winners
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 award judges-working fiction writers all--each read approximately 300 novels and short story collections to select a winner and four nomineers.
Top 10 Most Recent Giller 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 award was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller. These are the winners of the past ten years' Giller Prizes.
Top 9 Most Recent IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winners
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the world's largest literary prize, awarding £100,000 for a single work of fiction. Administered by the Dublin City Public Libraries, nominations are made by public libraries in major cities around the world, making the IMPAC Dublin Award one of the most internationally relevant prizes in literature.