Most Prestigious Literary Awards for Book Authors Around the Globe
In the digitalization epidemic writer aspiring to be popular can get a lot of attraction if made the right choice on time. But recognition doesn’t really end with popularity; it requires acknowledgments in the form of awards. And every author should be entitled to know more about this topic.
A literary award is a trophy that you will receive for the excellence of your writing skills. You can write poetries, fictional novels, or non-fiction body of work, and based on your writing merit you can receive these accolades. There are majorly two categories of literary awards which are General Awards and Genre-Specific Awards.
General Awards – General literary awards are not specified to any sort of genre. These awards are considered to be the most prestigious awards for a writer.
Genre-Specific Awards – These awards are given to authors writing in a specific genre or style. The book should fall into a specified genre like Children’s books, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, prose, poetry, short stories, etc.
- Most Prestigious Awards for Authors
Here is the list of awards that any writer should aspire to get through their meticulous and profound writing.
1. Nobel Prize
Q Being named after Alfred Nobel, this award is given for miscellaneous fields. Starting from science, medicine, and peace, this award is celebrating literature since 1901. The history of the Nobel Prize shows it has awarded writers in over 50 different languages. Writers like Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, and Rabindranath Tagore have been given this honor.
2. Pulitzer Prize
This prestigious award is specifically for fiction writers in the United States who hails from Columbia University. Named after the renowned journalist in the 1800s, Joseph Pulitzer, this award celebrates works in print, digital, magazine journalism, musical composition, and literature. The awards are run by Columbia University and have 21 categories. Winners of 20 of these 21 categories are given a certificate along with a cash prize of $15,000.
3. Man Booker Prize
If you are a fiction writer and from the United Kingdom then this can be yours, The Man Booker Prize offers monetary reward along with an overall recognition. The winner gets £50,000 as a grand prize and if your name is in the top six finalists then you will be given a sum of £2,500 per writer.
4. National Book Awards
The award celebrates some of the best literature written by American authors since 1950. The National Book Awards committee meets once a year and handpicks 25 “distinguished writers, translators, critics, librarians, and booksellers”. And these chosen 25 writers form another committee for the National Book Awards.
5. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature
These awards are distributed by the University of Oklahoma and by World Literature Today, the international literary publication of the university. The award ceremony started in 1970, and the winner of the award gets a certificate, a silver eagle feather, along with prize money of $50,000. In 1988, Raja Rao became the first Indian to receive the Neustadt Prize for his extraordinary works in Kannada, English, and French.
- Some of the Exquisitely Popular Literary Awards
Apart from the abovementioned awards, there are many awards that you can receive for your excellence in writing. These awards are extremely prestigious and some of these accolades are genre-specific as well. From thriller mystery to biography, choose your domain and start writing.
6. Edgar Award
7. Hugo Award
8. Printz Award
9. America Award for American Literature
10. John Newbery Medal
11. John Newbery Medal
12. Women's Prize for Fiction
13. Costa Book Awards (Formerly Whitbread Book Awards)
14. The Samuel Johnson Prize
Writers do not need a specific age of time to start writing, but it is always good if your works are being celebrated. So, keep writing and keep giving words to your unique qualities. And in the near future, you might be one of the receivers of these awards. Books are the greatest source of comfort and being a writer wordplay is something you enjoy, and these will surely give you celebrate your fiction and nonfiction. Most of these awards are given annually, and some of them like the Booker Prize are given every two years. And if you are willing to aim for the most prestigious awards then your goal should only contain Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize, and National Book Awards, as they are considered as "the world's most prestigious literary prizes".
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