Literary award
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A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony.
Types of awards
There are awards for several forms of writing such as poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, e.g. the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), and the Camões Prize (Portuguese), and the Booker Prize, the Folio Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the Hugo Awards (English).
The International Dublin Literary Award is given to writers, as well as to the translator(s) if the book chosen was written in a language other than English.
Other international literary prizes include the Nobel Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize.
Spoof awards include The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests, which are both given to deliberately bad sentences.
There are also literary awards targeted specificly to encourage the writing from African-American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, which was established in 2007 by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, and Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, which is a given by the National Community of Black Writers.
See also
- Award
- Literary
- List of books considered the best
- List of best-selling books
- Lists of books
- Western canon
- Classic book
- Great books
