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November 2008:
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian won the The FT / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
Stratton's war by Laura Wilson has won the The Ellis Peters Historical Award
The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings has won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
- Children's Literary Prizes
- New Zealand Prizes
- Writing Prizes (essays and unpublished works)
- International Prizes including
Literary prize calendar - lists when prizes are awarded
New Zealand
- Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards
- Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award
- New Zealand Book Awards
- Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
- Prize in Modern Letters
- Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror)
- Wattie Book Awards
Writing Prizes
These are awards for essays and/or unpublished works.
- Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards
- Landfall Essay Competition
- Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
- Redraft (open to any teenage writer in New Zealand)
International
Authors
Prizes awarded for the author's body of work
Fiction
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread)
- Dylan Thomas Prize
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
- Lambda Literary Awards
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Man Booker Prize
- National Book Awards (USA)
- National Book Critics Circle Awards
- Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
- PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
- Prix Goncourt (French prose)
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)
- Whitbread Awards (now the Costa Book Awards)
Genre fiction - Mystery, Horror, Crime, Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Anthony Awards (mystery)
- Bram Stoker Awards (horror)
- Crime Writers’ Association Awards
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards (mystery)
- Hugo Awards for Science Fiction
- Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic literature
- Nebula Awards for Science Fiction
- Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror by New Zealanders)
- World Fantasy Awards
Lists
- Granta Best of Young British Novelists 1993 and 2003
- Notable Books
New Writers
- Betty Trask Awards
- Commonwealth Writers Prize (includes Best First Book)
- The Costa First Novel Award
- The CWA New Blood Dagger (mystery/crime)
- Dylan Thomas Prize (restricted to authors under 30)
- Guardian First Book Award (was Guardian Fiction Award)
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
- Orange Broadband Award for New Writers
Non-fiction
- BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction
- The British Academy Book Prize (humanities/social sciences)
- The Costa Biography Award
- The FT / Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
- International Einhard Prize for Biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
- The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Non-Fiction
- Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic scholarship
- National Book Awards - Non-Fiction
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (formerly Aventis)
- Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)
