This is a list of British literary awards.
Current awards
Literature in general Barbellion Prize, for ill and disabled writers Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas" British Book Awards, the "Nibbies" (formerly the Galaxy National Book Awards) International Rubery Book Award James Tait Black Memorial Prize Jhalak Prize John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Ondaatje Prize Orwell Prize Portico Prize, for literature that "evokes the spirit of the North" Scotland's National Book Awards (formerly the Saltire Society Literary Awards) Somerset Maugham Award The People's Book Prize, judged by readers (six awards include the Frederick Forsyth Award for Fiction, Non-Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, the Beryl Bainbridge Award for a First-Time Author, Best Achievement Award, and Best Publisher Award) Wales Book of the Year Warwick Prize for Writing Wellcome Book Prize
Fiction
Bath Novel Award Bridport Prize Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize) Goldsmiths Prize Grindstone International Novel Prize Hawthornden Prize Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses The Writers' Prize (formerly known as Rathbones Folio Prize) Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly, Orange Prize for Fiction)
First novel Authors' Club Best First Novel Award Betty Trask Prize and Awards Desmond Elliott Prize Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Humour Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Comedy Women in Print Prize, the UK and Ireland's first comedy literary prize for women writers
Crime fiction CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for a thriller CWA International Dagger, for a translated crime novel 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 McIlvanney Prize, for a Scottish crime novel Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
Speculative fiction Arthur C. Clarke Award British Fantasy Award BSFA Awards David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy
Historical fiction Walter Scott Prize
Young adult and children fiction Bath Children's Novel Award Branford Boase Award Stockport Children's Book Awards
Poetry
Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Arvon International Poetry Prize Bridport Poetry Prize Cholmondeley Award Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes Eric Gregory Award Forward Prizes for Poetry Gaisford Prize Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine International Book & Pamphlet Competition Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets National Poetry Competition New Poets Prize Newdigate Prize Poetry Book Awards Poetry London Prize King's Gold Medal for Poetry T. S. Eliot Prize Ted Hughes Award Welsh Poetry Competition
Non-fiction
Alan Ball Local History Awards Baillie Gifford Prize Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 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 Orwell Prize for Political Writing Royal Society Insight investment Science Book Prize for popular science Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, for biography or memoir Wainwright Prize, for outdoors, nature, UK-based travel writing Whitfield Book Prize, for history William Hill Sports Book of the Year Wolfson History Prize Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Other The Barker Book Awards Brunel University African Poetry Prize Caine Prize for African Fiction Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) The Literary Encyclopedia, for academic monographs and scholarly editions SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book
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Literature
Costa Book Awards (discontinued)
Fiction
Commonwealth Writers Prize (discontinued) Dundee International Book Prize (discontinued) Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (discontinued) Ruth Hadden Memorial Award (discontinued) WH Smith Literary Award (discontinued) Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (discontinued)
First novel Guardian First Book Award Waverton Good Read Award
Speculative fiction
Kitschies (discontinued)
Nonfiction
NCR Book Award (discontinued)
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
References