Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation. A pantheon of writers such as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have all won National Book Awards.
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2021 were announced during the World Fantasy convention in New Orleans.
In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, The Shirley Jackson Awards are given annually for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.
In a ceremony at the Austin Central Library, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of their ninth annual Kirkus Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature.
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles won the 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award, a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. It is named after author Arthur C. Clarke, who gave a grant to establish the award in 1987.
Congratulations to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, the winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for The House of Rust.
The Dragon Awards are a set of literary and media awards presented annually since 2016 for excellence in various categories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels, movies, television, and games. The Dragon Awards are among the few awards nominated and voted on directly by fans.
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best alternate history genre publications of the year. The award takes its name from Murray Leinster's 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time", in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award administered by the World Science Fiction Society for the year's best science fiction or fantasy works. It is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore, have been awarded the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Last month, at Comic Con International, the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced. Commonly shortened to the Eisners, these prizes, given for creative achievement in American comic books, are sometimes referred to as the comics industry’s equivalent of the Academy Awards.
The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing. Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition "to make political writing into an art."
The Science Fiction Writers of America named the winners of their annual Nebula Awards. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award.
The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. In the Literary category, prizes are awarded to best fiction, nonfiction, debut author, biography/autobiography, instructional, poetry, children's, and teens.
Megan Marshall is the winner of the 13th BIO Award, bestowed annually by the Biographers International Organization, to a distinguished colleague who has made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography.
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British children’s book publisher John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution …
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth has been named the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. About the book, Roula Khalaf, FT editor and chair of judges, said: “Cyber security isn’t featuring highly enough on CEOs’ agenda. I hope this award will prompt them to read this book and pay attention.
The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award is given by The Mark Twain Museum Center to the work of fiction published in the previous calendar year (in this case, 2020) that best exemplifies or expresses a uniquely American voice, much in the way that Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn does.
Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation. A pantheon of writers such as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have all won National Book Awards.
Since 1952, the New York Time Book Review has looked at every illustrated children’s book published in the United States that year. In 2017, they partnered with the New York Public Library to present the award now known as The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award.
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2020 were announced during the World Fantasy 2021 convention, held November 4th through 7th, 2021 in Montreal.
Earlier this month, The Promise by Damon Galgut was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction.
Founded by journalist and author Paul Burston, the Polari First Book Prize is awarded annually to a writer whose first book explores the LGBT experience, whether in poetry, prose, fiction, or non-fiction. This year the prize was awarded to Mohsin Zaidi for his coming-of-age memoir A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance.
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay has been announced as the 35th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction literature.
