List of British literary awards
This is a list of British literary awards.
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
- International Rubery Book Award
- Jhalak Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Ondaatje Prize
- The Orwell Prize
- Saltire Society Literary Awards
- Somerset Maugham Award
- The Warwick Prize for Writing
- Wellcome Book Prize
Fiction
Fiction in general
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Dundee International Book Prize
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- Goldsmiths Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for fiction
- Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize)
- Rathbones Folio Prize
- Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses
- Wales Book of the Year
- WH Smith Literary Award
- Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
- Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction)
Crime
- 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
- Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
- Gold Dagger, for a crime novel
- McIlvanney Prize, for a Scottish crime novel
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
First novel
- Author's Club First Novel Award
- Betty Trask Award
- Desmond Elliott Prize
- Ruth Hadden Memorial Award
- Waverton Good Read Award
Historical
For young people
Poetry
- Alice Hunt Bartlett 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
- Michael Marks Poetry Awards
- National Poetry Competition
- Newdigate prize
- Poetry London Prize
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Ted Hughes Award
- Welsh Poetry Competition
Speculative fiction
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- British Fantasy Award
- BSFA Awards
- David Gemmell Legend Awards
- Kitschies
Non-fiction
- Alan Ball Local History Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
- Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing
- 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- Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit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
- Royal Society Insight investment Science Book Prize for popular science
- Samuel Johnson Prize
- Wainwright Prize for outdoors, nature, UK-based travel writing
- Whitfield Prize, for history
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year
- Wolfson History Prize, for history
Other
- Brunel University African Poetry Prize
- Caine Prize for African Fiction
- 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
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