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Book Awards

Academy of American Poets: Awards & Prizes

Featured awards and prizes include the Academy Fellowship, Tanning Prize, Lenore Marshall Prize, James Laughlin Award, Walt Whitman Award, Raiziss de Palchi Translation Award, Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and many university and colleges prizes.

American Fiction Prizes

A comprehensive list of the Major American Fiction Prizes, including: the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, L.A. Times Book Award, and the Pen/Faulkner Award

The Annual Gustavus Myers Award

The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America gives an annual book award for outstanding books published each year which extend our understanding of the root causes of bigotry and of the range of options we as humans have in constructing alternative, shared power relationships.

The Australian/Vogel Awards

Australian award given to an author under 35 years old, for an unpublished manuscript.

Awards for Children's Books

Including the Caldecott Awards and Newbery Awards.

AwardWeb

A collection of lists of literary award winner.

The Benjamin Franklin Awards

This award recognizes excellence in independent publishing, sponsored by the Publishers Marketing Association. 

The Book Award Annals

Literary award winners and finalists presented book synopses and available editions, all in an easy-to-browse format. Awards are grouped by genre, with explanations on how they differ.

Book Links: Mystery Awards

Booklinks is a volunteer project undertaken by the Chesterfield Couonty Public Library Collection Management. Frequent updates.

The Booker McConnell Prize

Awarded to the best full length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa

The Booker Prize

A listing of all Booker Prize winners since 1969, maintained by Wordsworth Books of Cambridge, MA.

Books.com Hall of Fame

List of book awards.

BookWire Book Awards Page

 

Boston Book Review Literary Prizes

The Boston Book Review's Second Annual award winners for Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry. The First Annual award winners are also available.

Bram Stoker Awards

Given out by the Horror Writers of America for achievement in horror publishing.

Caldecott Book Awards (History)

List of the awards from 1985 to the present; provides background on this award.

The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards

Provides the nominees and winners of the 60th Governor General's Literary Awards. Bilungual site: English/French.

Children's Literature Award Lists

A very through list of international and American children's book awards.

Giverny Award

This award is given annually in April to the author and to the illustrator of the book selected as the best children's science picture book. Currently based at Louisiana State University.

Hans Christian Anderson Medals

Awarded every two years for a children's author and illustrator.

Hugo Awards Archive

An archive of the science fiction/fantasy achievement awards.

The Literary Award Database

          Containins all winners and nominees of 29 major literary and genre book awards

Literary Prizes and Awards

A list supplied by the Canterbury Public Library located in New Zealand.

Malice Domestic and the Agatha Awards

Malice Domestic is an annual convention in Washington, DC that salutes the traditional mystery genre. Each year, its coveted Agatha Awards -- voted by convention attendees -- are awarded in the following categories: Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Nonfiction, and Best Short Story.

The Miles Franklin Award

An Australian award given annually for a novel or play.

Minnesota Center for the Book

Comprehensive information resource about Minnesota's community of the book, including a complete listing of nominees and recipients of the annual Minnesota Book Awards and a Language of the Land sampler of Minnesota's literary heritage.

The Mythopoeic Society Annual Awards

A listing of the Mythopoeic Fantasy and Scholarship Award winners since 1971.

The National Book Award

A listing of all National Book Award winners since 1969, maintained by Wordsworth Books of Cambridge, MA.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards

Historical listings provided by Book Stacks.

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Offers a listing of winners between 1901 to 2000.

Phoenix Book Award

Children's Literature Award awarded 20 years after a book is published.

Poetry Society of America Awards

Brief text description provided on the following poetry awards: the Frost Medal and the Shelley Memorial Award. Awards open to the public include: the Writer Magazine Emily Dickinson Award, Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Lyric Poetry Award, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award, George Bogin Memorial Award, Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Norma Farber First Book Award, and William Carlos Williams Award.

SFWA Nebula Awards

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 1,000 members, among them most of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy.

Shamus Awards

A listing of the 2000 Shamus Award Winners & Nominees, provided by MysteryNet.com - the online network for everything mystery. Categories include: Best Private Eye Novel, Paperback Original, First Novel, and Short Story.

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