The Prizes

Pulitzer, Booker, Nobel, Orange, PEN-Faulkner, Booker International, Whitbread, Hugo, Edgar, Nebula, etc.

A place to discuss the merits and failures of the choices made for literary prizes and awards, as well as of the very idea of prizes.

TopicTopicMessagesLast Message 
The Highland Book Prize2 unread / 2geocroc, March 7
Dolman Travel Book of the Year19 unread / 19geocroc, February 14
National Book Critics Circle Award81 unread / 81LheaJLove, March 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature25 unread / 25kidzdoc, October 2024
The Pulitzer136 unread / 136bergs47, August 2023
The Booker Prize14 unread / 14bergs47, August 2023
The Man Booker International Prize14 unread / 14kidzdoc, May 2023
Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards2 unread / 2geocroc, April 2023
The National Book Award127 unread / 127Pharmacdon, November 2022
Giller 2022 Prize6 unread / 6Yells, November 2022
French Prizes23 unread / 23librorumamans, November 2022
The Walter Scott prize for historical fiction29 unread / 29si, November 2022
Kirkus Prize3 unread / 3Pharmacdon, September 2022
The Women's Prize for Fiction62 unread / 62Pharmacdon, June 2022
The Whitbread/Costa72 unread / 72Cynfelyn, June 2022
Thriller Awards5 unread / 5bergs47, May 2022
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize46 unread / 46bergs47, May 2022
Edgar awards5 unread / 5Pharmacdon, April 2022
TS Eliot Poetry Award14 unread / 14bergs47, April 2022
The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books59 unread / 59bergs47, April 2022
2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize19 unread / 19Pharmacdon, April 2022
The Wellcome Trust Book Prize20 unread / 20Pharmacdon, April 2022
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction13 unread / 13Pharmacdon, April 2022
British Book Award7 unread / 7bergs47, April 2022
Mystery, Crime & Thriller Awards25 unread / 25Pharmacdon, April 2022
Gordon Burn Prize 20175 unread / 5Pharmacdon, April 2022
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards8 unread / 8Pharmacdon, April 2022
Folio Prize10 unread / 10Pharmacdon, April 2022
Man Asian Literary Prize16 unread / 16Pharmacdon, April 2022
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize13 unread / 13Pharmacdon, April 2022
William Hill Sports Book of the Year11 unread / 11Pharmacdon, April 2022
The Also-Ran2 unread / 2susanbooks, March 2022
John Burroughs Medal- Natural History Writing4 unread / 4Pharmacdon, March 2022
Not The Booker Prize12 unread / 12Pharmacdon, March 2022
The Miles Franklin Award76 unread / 76Pharmacdon, March 2022
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction6 unread / 6Pharmacdon, March 2022
Prime Minister’s Literary awards3 unread / 3Pharmacdon, March 2022
The Wainwright Prize5 unread / 5Pharmacdon, March 2022
ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD3 unread / 3Pharmacdon, March 2022
Scotiabank Giller Prize4 unread / 4bergs47, March 2022
The PEN/Faulkner Award40 unread / 40Pharmacdon, March 2022
Reading List3 unread / 3Pharmacdon, March 2022
Hugo Awards8 unread / 8Pharmacdon, March 2022
Portico Prize for Literature5 unread / 5tallpaul, January 2022
TIME The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of year3 unread / 3bergs47, December 2021
TIME The 10 Best Fiction Books of year3 unread / 3bergs47, December 2021
The Orwell Prize28 unread / 28bergs47, August 2021
Wolfson History Prize4 unread / 4bergs47, August 2021
2021 International Booker Prize shortlist3 unread / 3kidzdoc, June 2021
2021 International Booker Prize longlist3 unread / 3AnnieMod, April 2021
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature8 unread / 8kidzdoc, February 2021
2018 Giller Prize Shortlist6 unread / 6bergs47, December 2020
Bad Sex in Fiction Award86 unread / 86Citizenjoyce, December 2020
Giller Prize for 20204 unread / 4pamelad, November 2020
How can a book get a prize 2 years before it is published???6 unread / 6halloleo, October 2020
International Dublin Literary Award12 unread / 12kidzdoc, September 2020
The Diagram Prize5 unread / 5kidzdoc, September 2020
Jhalak Prize2 unread / 2bergs47, July 2020
The Wellcome Book Prize18 unread / 18bergs47, April 2020
Stella Prize25 unread / 25bergs47, April 2020
The Desmond Elliott Prize22 unread / 22bergs47, February 2020
Childrens and YA Prizes: Carnegie, Newbery, etc...19 unread / 19Cynfelyn, February 2020
Writers' Trust Awards-Canada37 unread / 37Yells, February 2020
Nobel Prize in Literature 2018-20191 unread / 1lriley, October 2019
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award16 unread / 16bergs47, September 2019
Giller Prize for 20191 unread / 1torontoc, September 2019
Best Translated Book Award32 unread / 32kidzdoc, June 2019
Waterstones Book of the Year11 unread / 11bergs47, December 2018
Governor General's Literary Awards3 unread / 3Yells, October 2018
The Goldsmiths Prize4 unread / 4bergs47, October 2018
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award name change1 unread / 1Cynfelyn, June 2018
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction9 unread / 9kidzdoc, June 2018
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Non-Fiction Shortlist8 unread / 8bergs47, February 2018
2017 Giller Prize5 unread / 5torontoc, November 2017
Nobel Prize in Literature 201710 unread / 10Jargoneer, October 2017
2017 Man Booker Prize4 unread / 4Crypto-Willobie, October 2017
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award1 unread / 1bergs47, September 2017
Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award1 unread / 1bergs47, August 2017
The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize10 unread / 10bergs47, August 2017
The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature20 unread / 20bergs47, August 2017
Shamus Award Finalists3 unread / 3bergs47, August 2017
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year6 unread / 6bergs47, August 2017
2014 Windham-Campbell Prizes4 unread / 4bergs47, May 2017
C. S. Lewis Honor Book or Notable Book4 unread / 4gilroy, April 2017
2016 BMO Winterset Award1 unread / 1Andrew_MC, March 2017
Indie Book Awards1 unread / 1bergs47, March 2017
The Booker International Prize for Fiction60 unread / 60kidzdoc, March 2017
Samuel Johnson Prize47 unread / 47bergs47, January 2017
Giller Prize 20163 unread / 3torontoc, November 2016
2016 Man Booker Prize10 unread / 10MarthaJeanne, October 2016
Nobel Prize in Literature 201639 unread / 39artturnerjr, October 2016
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners2 unread / 2bergs47, September 2016
Queensland Literary Award 20161 unread / 1alexdaw, September 2016
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year6 unread / 6Jargoneer, July 2016
Sunday Times Short Story Award2 unread / 2bergs47, May 2016
Guardian First Book Award47 unread / 47kidzdoc, April 2016
2015 BMO Winterset Award1 unread / 1Andrew_MC, April 2016
Giller Prize 20158 unread / 8catarina1, November 2015
2015 Booker Prize4 unread / 4TooBusyReading, October 2015
Nobel Prize in Literature 20154 unread / 4Jargoneer, October 2015
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