List of British literary awards
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A list of British literary awards.
Contents
Literature in general
- Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas..."
- British Book Awards -- the "Nibbies"
- Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards)
- Guardian First Book Award
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Ondaatje Prize
- The Orwell Prize
- The People's Book Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- The Warwick Prize for Writing
Fiction
Fiction in general
- Man Booker Prize
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Dundee International Book Prize
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- Wales Book of the Year
- WH Smith Literary Award
- Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
Humour
Crime
- Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
- CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for a thriller
- CWA New Blood Dagger, for a debut crime novel
- Dagger in the Library, for a crime writer, chosen by librarians
- Gold Dagger, for a crime novel
First novel
- Author's Club First Novel Award
- Betty Trask Award
- Ruth Hadden Memorial Award
- Waverton Good Read Award
Historical
For young people
Poetry
- Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
- Bridport prize
- Cholmondeley Award
- Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes
- Eric Gregory Award
- Forward Poetry Prize
- Gaisford Prize
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
- Michael Marks Poetry Awards
- National Poetry Competition
- Newdigate prize
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- T. S. Eliot Prize
Speculative fiction
Non-fiction
- Alan Ball Local History Awards
- CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
- Samuel Johnson Prize
- Whitfield Prize, for history
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year
- Wolfson History Prize, for history
Other
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)
- SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK
- Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book
See also
- List of literary awards
- British literature
- English literature
- Scottish literature
- Welsh-language literature
- Welsh literature in English
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry
External links
- Book Prize Information: A source of information on book prizes and prizewinning books.
