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How many British literature awards are you familiar with?

I was listening to BBC Radio 4. The guest essayist was stressing the amount of awards there are. With 25,000 novels published in the UK last year, being nominated or winning an award is excellent self-promoton. It would give a budding-author an edge in the competition for recogniton.

I should be so lucky, but we can dream.

Can you ad to this list I found. I can add the Carnegie Medal.

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
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
New Writing Ventures
Ondaatje Prize
The Orwell Prize
The People's Book Prize
Somerset Maugham Award
Warwick Prize for Writing

Fiction
Fiction in general

Man Booker Prize
Commonwealth Writers Prize
Dundee International Book Prize
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Hawthornden Prize
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
Orange Prize for Fiction
Wales Book of the Year
WH Smith Literary Award
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize

Crime

Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
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
Gold Dagger, for a crime novel

First novel

Author's Club First Novel Award
Betty Trask Award
Ruth Hadden Memorial Award
Waverton Good Read Award

Historical

Walter Scott Prize

For young people

Branford Boase Award

Poetry

Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
Bridport prize
Cholmondeley Award
Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes
Eric Gregory Award
Forward Poetry Prize
Gaisford Prize
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Michael Marks Poetry Awards
National Poetry Competition
Newdigate prize
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
T. S. Eliot Prize

Speculative fiction

Kitschies

Non-fiction

Alan Ball Local History Awards
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Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit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
Samuel Johnson Prize
Whitfield Prize, for history
William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Wolfson History Prize, for history

Asked by: Adrian Sroka

  1. Victoria Whithear on September 15, 2012

    Romantic Novel of the Year?

    And it's not one we'd all be aiming for but the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Lol

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  2. Jonathan Hopkins on September 15, 2012

    I never realised there were so many.

    Bad sex in fiction? I can do that ;)

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  3. Adrian Sroka on September 15, 2012

    I believe there are European awards which British authors are eligible. I am uncertain about American or Canadian awards.

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