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Hans Christian Andersen Award (international) – since 1956. Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) – since 1956. Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany/international) – since 1956. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957. Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Netherlands) – since 1964.
World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by judges and attendees of the World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, with the two most-nominated selected, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner.
The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described by book critics such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize", [1] and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both ...
This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$100,000 or equivalent. Although global in scope and comprising over 35 awards, most of the prizes are in only four currencies: United Arab Emirates dirham , Swedish krona , Euro , and United States dollar .
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members. The award is administered by the World Science Fiction Society. The Hugo is widely considered the premier award in the science fiction ...
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. 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 ...
The Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921, making it the first children's book award in the world. [3] [4]: 1 The physical bronze medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and is given to the winning author at the next ALA annual conference. Since its founding there have been several changes to the composition of the selection ...
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating ...