Selected Book Awards
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Academy of American Poets Fellowship Award
Awarded since 1946, the Fellowship's $25,000 stipend is granted to one
poet per year in recognition of distinguished poetic achievement.
Affiliation: Academy of American Poets
Latest Recipient: Brigit Pegeen Kelly (2008)
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/106
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards
Presented annually since 1953, The Jane Addams Book Awards are for books which "effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.
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Affiliation: Jane Addams Peace Association
Latest Recipients:
For Younger Children:Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
For Older Children: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
http://home.igc.org/~japa/jacba/index_jacba.html
American Indian Youth Literature Award
First awarded in 2008, this award honors the best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.
Affiliation: American Indian Library Association (AILA)
Latest Recipients:
Picture Book: A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King, Illustrated by Gary Clement
Middle School: Meet Christopher: An Osage Indian Boy from Oklahoma by Genevieve Simermeyer
Young Adult:Between Me and the Deep Blue Sea by Lurline Wailana McGregor
American Institute of Graphic Arts SEED Awards
The SEED Awards is a design competition to celebrate the best and the
brightest design in the Southeast. After judging over 500 entries the
competition is chronicled in a book featuring the winning work.
Affiliation: American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Atlanta
Chapter
http://aiga-atl.org/event.jsp?navigation=12&content=325
Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere.
Affiliation: Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)
Latest Recipients:
Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales.
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/americas.html
Hans Christian Andersen Awards
“The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. The Author's Award has been given since 1956 and the Illustrator's Award since 1966.Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is the Patron of the Andersen Awards. The nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and the recipients are selected by a distinguished international jury of children's literature specialists.”
Affiliation: International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
Latest Recipients: Jürg Schubiger, Roberto Innocenti
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273
Recognizes an individual in children's literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site.
Latest Recipient: Kathleen T. Horning
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The Mildred L. Batchelder Award
This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director
of the Association for Library Service to Children, a believer in the
importance of good books for children in translation from all parts
of the world. It is awarded to an American publisher for a children's
book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally
published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently
translated into English and published in the United States.
Affiliation: The Association for Library Service to Children
(ALSC), a division of ALA
Latest Recipient: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. for Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, writtten by Nahoko Uehashi, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/batchelderaward/index.cfm
This award honors Latino authors and illustrators whose work celebrates the Latino culture in children's books.
Affiliation: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and he National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking (REFORMA)
Latest Recipients:
Illustrator: Los Gatos Black on Halloween illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Author: The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Best Books for Young Adults
The 15-member committee annually narrows down hundreds of submissions
into their official nominations meeting the criteria of both good literary
quality and popular reading appeal for teens, ages 12-18.
Affiliation: Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA),
a division of the American Library Association (ALA)
Black Caucus Literary Awards
The BCALA Literary Awards recognize outstanding works of Fiction and
Nonfiction by African American authors for adult audiences.
Affiliation: Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Latest Recipients:
Fiction: New England White by Steven L. Carter
Nonfiction: Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
First Novelist: The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More by Chantal Ellen
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing:Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits (Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and Culture)
http://www.bcala.org/awards/literary.htm
Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for Poetry awards $10,000 every other year to the best book of American poetry published in the preceding two years.
Affiliation: Library of Congress
Latest Recipient:This Clumsy Living by Bob Hicok
Lifetime Achievement: Charles Wright
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/bobbitt.html
Book Sense of the Year Awards
“Book Sense independent booksellers from across the country nominate the books that they most enjoyed handselling to their customers throughout the year for inclusion in the monthly Book Sense Picks. The books on each list represent a combined national and local staff pick selection of booksellers' favorites from more than 1,200 independent bookstores with Book Sense.”
Affiliation: American Booksellers Association
Latest Recipients:
Adult Fiction :A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead/Penguin)
Adult Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver (HarperCollins)
Children's Literature: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
Children's Illustrated: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)
Paperback: Not Awarded (2008)
http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/BSBY.html
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards are given to outstanding children's
fiction, poetry, picture books, and non-fiction published in the United
States, but not necessarily by an American author or artist.
Affiliation: The Horn Book Magazine, The Boston Globe
Latest Recipients:
Picture: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar
Fiction & Poetry: Nation by Terry Pratchett
Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming
http://www.hbook.com/bghb/default.asp
British Science Fiction Association Awards
This award recognizes the best British Science Fiction works published
each year.
Affiliation: British Science Fiction Association
Latest Recipients:
Novel: Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Short Fiction: Lighting Out by Ken MacLeod from disLocations
Artwork: Cracked World by Andy Bigwood
Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958: Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss.
http://www.bsfa.co.uk/
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Randolph Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English
illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association
for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library
Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture
book for children.
Affiliation: American Library Association
Latest Recipient: The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
Given in recognition of an outstanding work for young people between
the ages of 13 and 18 by a Canadian author.
Affiliation: Canadian Library Association
Latest Recipient: The Blue Helmet by William Bell
http://www.cla.ca/awards/yac.htm
Carnegie Medal
The Carnegie Medal is awarded to an outstanding American video production
for children.
Affiliation: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC),
a division of ALA
Latest Recipients: Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/carnegiemedal/index.cfm
Nan Chauncy Award (Australia)
Named after Nan Chauncy, a noted Tasmanian author of children’s books, this CBCA award been created to honor people who have made an outstanding contribution, over a period of years, to the field of Australian children's literature.
Affiliation: Australia Children's Book Council
Latest Recipient: Margaret Wild
http://cbca.org.au/default.aspx?contentID=125
CILIP Carnegie Medal
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually by children's librarians
to an outstanding book for children and young people.
Affiliation: CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals
Latest Recipient: Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/home/index.php
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The Philip K. Dick Awards
Following the death of noted science fiction author, Philip K. Dick,
this award was established to honor his memory and recognize distinguished
science fiction published in the United States.
Affiliation: The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society
Latest Recipients:
Emissaries From The Dead by Adam-Troy Castro
Terminal Mind by David Walton
http://www.philipkdickaward.org
The Dial Award
The award was first presented in 1921 by Schofield Thayer, editor of
The Dial, a literary magazine. It was presented only eight times before
it was canceled in 1928 but in that time such notable authors as T.S.
Eliot, Van Wyck Brooks, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound were named as
winners.
Affiliation: The Dial Magazine
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/dial/dialhist.htm
The Frederick Douglass Prize
This $25,000 award recognizes the best book published each year written
about slavery, resistance and abolition.
Affiliation: Gilder Lehrman Center
Latest Recipient: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood
http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/dpnotice.htm
Drexel University/Free Library of Philadelphia Children’s Literature Citation
Established in 1963, the Drexel University/Free Library of Philadelphia Children’s Literature Citation is awarded to authors, illustrators, publishers and others who have made outstanding contributions to the field of literature for children. The recipient must hail from Philadelphia, or have contributed significantly to literature for children in the Philadelphia area.
Affiliation: Drexel University; Free Library of Philadelphia
Latest Recipient: Peter Catalanotto (2004)
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/CS/GraduatePrograms/spec/children
Dromkeen Medal (Australia)
Recognizing a citizen for "recent work providing a significant contribution to the appreciation and development of children's literature."
Affiliation:Dromkeen
Latest Recipient: Ruth Park
http://www.scholastic.com.au/common/dromkeen/medal.asp
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The Margaret A. Edwards Award
Established in 1988, this award honors an author's lifetime achievement
for writing books that have been popular over a period of time. It recognizes
an author's work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and
addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships,
society, and in the world.
Affiliation: Sponsored by School Library Journal and administered
by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division
of ALA
Latest Recipient: Laurie Halse Anderson
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/
margaretaedwards/margaretedwards.htm
Arthur Ellis Award
The Arthur Ellis Awards are named after Canada's official hangman. Awards are presented in six categories for works in the crime genre published for the first time in the previous year by authors living in Canada, regardless of their nationality, or by Canadian writers living outside of Canada.
Affiliation: The Crime Writers of Canada (CWC).
Latest Recipients:
Best Short Story: Pasha Malla, “Filmsong” in Toronto Noir by Pasha Malla
Best Non-Fiction: Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken by Michael Calce and Craig Silverman
Best Juvenile:War Brothers by Vicki Grant
Best Crime Writing in French: Le Chemin by Jacques Côté
Best First Novel:Buffalo Jump by Howard Shrier
Best Novel:Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (the Unhanged Arthur):Louder by Douglas S. Moles
http://www.crimewriterscanada.co
Empire State Award
First presented in 1990 by the Youth Services Section of the New York Library Association, the Empire State Award is a one-time award presented to a living author or illustrator currently residing in New York State.
Affiliation: The Youth Services Section of the New York Library Association
Latest Recipient: Rafe Martin
http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=411
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Eleanor Farjeon Award (United Kingdom)
Awarded to an individual in recognition of his or her distinguished
contribution to the world of children's books. Winner is chosen from nominations from members of the Children's Book Circle.
Affiliation: Children's Book Circle
Latest Recipient: Chris Brown
Carolyn W. Field Award
This award was established in 1983 by the Youth Services Division of
the Pennsylvania Library Association. A Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania,
Carolyn Wicker Field retired in 1983 from the Free Library of Philadelphia
where she served as Coordinator of Work with Children for 30 years
Affiliation: Pennsylvania Library Association
Latest Recipient: Way Down Deep by Ruth White
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booknook/topicbooklists/fieldaward.html
Frost Medal
This award recognizes "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry."
Affiliation: The Poetry Society of America
Latest Recipient: X.J. Kennedy
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_frsh.html
Fulbright Fellowship
Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries
for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing,
advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary
schools.
Affiliation: Fulbright Foundation
http://www.iie.org/cies/about_fulb.htm
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Geisel Medal
This award, established in 2004, recognizes authors and illustrators
of beginning reader books.
Affiliation: American Library Association
Latest Recipient: Are You Ready to Play Outside? written and illustrated by Mo Willems
The Gold Dagger for Fiction
The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards are one of Britain's most
well recognized crime fiction awards. The Gold Dagger is given to the
most outstanding crime novel each year.
Affiliation: The Crime Writer's Association
Latest Recipient: Andrew Taylor
http://www.thecwa.co.uk./index.php
The Golden Kite Awards
The Golden Kite Award, first given in 1973, is the only major children's book award presented by one's peers, and, therefore, is one of the most respected and coveted honors in the field.
Affiliation: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Latest Recipients:
Fiction: Down Sand Mountain by Steve Watkins
Nonfiction: A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts by Pamela S. Turner
Picture Book Text: A Visitor for Bear by Bonnie Becker; illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
Picture Book Illustration: Last Night by Hyewon Yum
http://www.scbwi.org/Pages.aspx/Golden-Kite-Award
Kate Greenaway Medal
The Kate Greenaway Medal was established by The Library Association in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular nineteenth century artist known for her fine children's illustrations and designs.
Affiliation: CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals
Latest Recipient: Harris Finds His Feet by Catherine Rayner
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway/
Guggenheim Fellowships
Guggenheim Fellowships provide authors with the opportunity to travel
and to use their time as freely and creatively as possible.
Affiliation: Guggenheim Foundation
http://www.gf.org/fellows
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Virginia Hamilton Literary Award
Recognizing an American author or illustrator whose books demonstrate artistic excellence and make a significant contribution to the field of multicultural literature for children and adolescents.
Latest Recipient: Russell Freedman
Affiliation: Kent State University Virginia Hamilton Conference
http://dept.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconf/
O.B. Hardison, Jr., Poetry Prize
Founded in 1991, the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize is the only major American prize to celebrate a poet’s excellence in both poetry and teaching. The winner receives $10,000, and is honored with a ceremony and reading at the Folger.
Affiliation: Folger Shakespeare Library
Latest Recipient: Mary Kinzie
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=548
The O. Henry Prize Stories
The O. Henry Awards, established in 1918 in memory of William Sidney
Porter (pseudonym O. Henry), are cash prizes given annually to American
or Canadian short story authors.
Affiliation: Anchor Books
Latest Recipients:
multiple winners
(2009)
http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/#
The Katherine Hepburn Medals
Awarded by Bryn Mawr College, the Katherine Hepburn Medals honor “women whose lives, work and contributions embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress.” The medals, to be awarded annually, were first given in 2006.
Affiliation: Bryn Mawr College - Katherine Houghton Hepburn Center
Latest Recipient: Jane Golden
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
This award honors quality poetry written for young people.
Affiliation: Lee Bennett Hopkins, The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, the University Libraries, and the Pennsylvania School Librarians' Association
Latest Recipient: Alice Shertle (2010)
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/hopkins/index.html
The Hugo Award
also known as Science Fiction Achievement Award
The Hugo Award was named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, "The Father of
Magazine Science Fiction." Fourteen are awarded each year. Winners are
determined by nominations from and the popular vote of the membership
of WSFS. In general, a Hugo Award given in a particular year is for
work that appeared in the previous calendar year. Only the winners of
the Novel, Novella, Novelette and Short Story are listed here. Please
see the official site for a listing of all winners.
Affiliation: World Science Fiction Society (WSFS)
Latest Recipients:
Novel:The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Novella: "All Seated on the Ground " by Connie Willis
Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate " by Ted Chiang
Short Story: "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear
http://www.wsfs.org/hugos.html
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The IMPAC Award
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open to books written in any language. The Award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries.
Affiliation: IMPAC and Dublin City Libraries
Latest Recipient: Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/index.htm
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Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature
Recognizes a distinguished body of work by a NY children's book author.
Affiliation: School Library Media Section of the NY Library Association - NYLA
Latest Recipient: David Adler
http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=632
Ezra Jack Keats Award
This award is given each year to an outstanding new author and illustrator
of children's books.
Affiliation: Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, New York Public Library
Latest Recipients:
Author: Stian Hole for Garmann’s Summer
Illustrator: Shadra Strickland for Bird
http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/index.cfm?article_id=277&sq=2
Coretta Scott King Awards
The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott
King Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities
Round Table. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent
whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation
of the "American Dream."
Affiliation: American Library Association
Latest Recipients:
Author: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Illustrator: The Blacker the Berry illus. by Floyd Cooper
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/emiert/cskbookawards/index.cfm
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James Laughlin Award
The James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a poet's second book. It is the only second-book award for poetry in the United States. Offered since 1954, the award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. It is named for the poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914-1997), who founded New Directions in 1936. It carries an award of $5,000 and the promise of purchase of 10,000 volumes of their work.
Affiliation: Academy of American Poets
Latest Recipient: The True Keeps Calm Biding its Story by Rusty Morrison
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/109
Lannan Literary Awards
The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality. Over the last 18 years, through its Awards and Fellowships program, the Foundation has awarded 161 writers and poets over $11 million. The awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature.
Affiliation: Lannan Foundation
Latest Recipient:
Poetry: August Kleinzahler
http://ee.lannan.org/lf/lit/awards-and-fellowships/
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Astrid Lindgren is Sweden’s favorite author and one of the world’s most popular. She passed away in 2002 at the age of 94. To honor her memory and promote children’s and youth literature around the world, the Swedish government has founded an international prize in her name. The award, of five million Swedish crowns, is the world’s largest for children’s and youth literature, and the second-largest literature prize in the world.
Affiliation: Swedish Arts Council
Latest Recipient: Sonya Hartnett
http://www.alma.se/en/Fiktiv-Startsida/Alma-startpage_en/Prize-winner/
Louisiana Book Award
Presented periodically by the Louisiana Center for the Book, the Louisiana Book Award recognizes outstanding literary and intellectual contributions to the state of Louisiana.
Affiliation: Lousiana Center for the Book
Latest Recipient: Tim Gautreaux
http://www.state.lib.la.us/la_dyn_templ.cfm?doc_id=18
Jeremiah Ludington Memorial Award
The Ludington award is presented annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the educational paperback business. Recipients receive a framed certificate and EPA presents a $2,500 check to the charity of their choice.
Affiliation: Educational Paperback Association
Latest Recipient: Kevin Henkes
http://www.edupaperback.org/award.cfm
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James Madison Book Award
The James Madison Book Award is given each year to the book that best represents excellence in bringing knowledge and understanding of American history to children in elementary school and to middle-schoolers.
Latest Recipient: The Many Rides of Paul Revere by James Cross Giblin
http://www.jamesmadisonbookaward.org/
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize honors the memory of Lenore Marshall (1897-1971), a poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist. Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.
Affiliation: Academy of American Poets and The Nation
Latest Recipient: Blackbird and Wolf by Henri Cole
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/108
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Honoring a body of work which is inspirational to Canadian youth.
Affiliation:
Writer's Trust of Canada
Latest Recipient: Michael Kusugak
http://www.writerstrust.com/programs_apa_vickymetcalf.html
The Mother Goose Award
This award provided £1000 to the most exciting newcomer to children's
book illustration among authors in the United Kingdom. First awarded
in 1979, it was given for the last time in 1999.
Affiliation: The Books for Your Children Book Club
http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/prizes/prizes.php4?action=2&przid=24
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The NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature
The NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature is a relatively new life-time achievement award. The long-standing annual NSK Neustadt Prize for authors of works for adults can be awarded to a writer from any nation.
Affiliation: The University of Oklahoma and "World Literature Today"
Latest Recipient: Patricia Grace
http://www.worldliteraturetoday.com/
The National Book Award
The National Book Award seeks to increase the popularity of reading,
and to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional American books.
Affiliation: National Book Foundation
Latest Recipients:
Fiction:Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Nonfiction:The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Poetry: Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop
Young People's Literature:Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
http://www.nationalbook.org/
The National Jewish Book Awards
The most prestigious and longest running North American awards program recognizing outstanding Jewish writers.
Affiliation: Jewish Book Councils
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/page.php?27
National Outdoor Book Awards
The National Outdoor Book Awards, sponsored by the Association of Outdoor
Recreation and Education and by the Idaho State University, honor the
best in outdoor publishing and writing in nine categories.
Affiliation: Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education,
Idaho State University
Latest Recipients:
multiple
winners (2008)
http://www.isu.edu/outdoor/books/books08.htm
The Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library
Service to Children, to the author of the most distinguished contribution
to literature for children.
Affiliation: American Library Association
Latest Recipient: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Sterling North Legacy Award for Excellence in Children's Literature
Named after the late author of the Newbery Honor Book, RASCAL,this award celebrates the 100th anniversary of Sterling North's birth. It recognizes North's dedication to excellence in children's books.
Affiliation: Edgerton Book Festival
Latest Recipient: Kevin Henkes
Notable Children's Books
The Notable Children's book list contains books worthy of note or notice
that are important, distinguished or outstanding. As applied to children's
books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable
quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction,
information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (through age 14)
that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways.
Affiliation: The Association for Library Service to Children
and American Library Association
Latest Recipients:
multiple winners (2009)
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Odyssey Award
This award recognizes the best audiobook for children and young adults, ages birth to eighteen.
Latest Recipients: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written and narrated by Sherman Alexie and produced by Recorded Books, LLC.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/odyssey/odyssey.cfm
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award
The only independent guide to the best toys, books, DVDs, and music for kids.
Latest Recipients:
multiple
winners (2009)
http://www.toyportfolio.com/PlatinumAwards/Index.asp
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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is an award designed to be independent
of the demands of the publishing industry, free from all constraints
of sales and marketing, free to flow from the judgment of a writer's
peers. One is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by an American
author.
Affiliation: Folger Shakespeare Library, PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Latest Recipient: Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Phoenix Award
This award, presented by the Children's Literature Association, is given to the author of a book that did not win a major award when published twenty years earlier.
Affiliation: Children's Literature Association
Latest Recipient:Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
http://www.childlitassn.org/phoenix_award.html
Michael L. Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
Affiliation: American Library Association and the Young Adult
Library Services Association (a member group of ALA)
Latest Recipient: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz.cfm
The Prix Aurora Award
The Aurora is given to the best English and French language science
fiction works written in Canada.
Affiliation: The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association
Latest Recipients:
multiple winners
http://www.sentex.net/~dmullin/aurora
The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize, established in 1904 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer,
awards 21 prizes annually in Journalism, Fiction, Drama, History, Biography
or Autobiography, Poetry, General Non-fiction, and Music. Only the winners
of the Fiction, Poetry, and General Nonfiction are listed here. Please
see the official site for a list of all winners.
Affiliation: The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University
Latest Recipients:
Fiction:Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Poetry: The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
General Non-fiction:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Pushkin Prize
Established in 1988 to honor poet Aleksandr Pushkin, this prize honors
young Russian and Scottish authors for excellent creative writing portfolios.
Affiliation: Russian Federation of Arts and Letters
Latest Recipients: Polina Averynova, Charlotte Gorden, Gwen Hart, Sofia Pechkovskaya, Annie Dou
http://www.pushkinprizes.net/
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Regina Medal
The Regina Medal award, established in 1959 and sponsored by the Catholic Library Association, is administered by the Children’s Library Services Section through the Regina Medal Committee at the will of the Catholic Library Association Executive Board. The medal honors an individual’s continued contribution to children’s literature.
Affiliation: Catholic Library Association
Latest Recipient: Lois Ehlert
http://www.cathla.org/awards_regina.php
The Russian Booker
The Russian Booker is modeled after the UK's Booker prize, and honors
the highest achievement in Russian novel writing each year.
Affiliation: United Distillers and Vintners, the Booker Prize
UK
Latest Recipient: Matisse by Aleksandr Ilichevskii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Booker_Prize
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Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Award honors an author or illustrator for
a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience
for child and adolescent audiences in three age categories.
Affiliation: Donated by Katherine Schneider Ph.D. and administered
by the American Library Association
Latest Recipients:
Best Picture Book for Young Children: Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum, written and illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
Middle School Award: Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
Teen Award: Jerk, California, by Jonathan Friesen
http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/awardsrecords/schneideraward/schneiderfamily.cfm
Science in Society Book Award (Canada)
Recognizing outstanding contributions to science writing.
Affiliation: Canadian Science Writers' Association - CSWA
Latest Recipients: Liza Mundy for her book Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men and Women and the World, Beth Whitehouse for her Newsday series "The Match," and Stephen Lyons and Llewellyn M. Smith for their docudrama "Forgotten Genius"
http://www.nasw.org/awards/2008/index.htm
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established in 2001,
is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational
book published during the preceding year. The award is named in honor
of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound
Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois, and is sponsored by the company.
Affiliation: Association for Library Service to Children and
American Library Association
Latest Recipient: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written and illustrated by Peter Sís
Shelley Memorial Award
The Shelley Memorial Award of more than $3,500, established by the will
of the late Mary P. Sears, is given to a living American poet selected
with reference to genius and need.
Affiliation: The Poetry Society of America
Latest Recipient: Ron Padgett and Gary Young
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_frsh.html
Stonewall Book Award
(formerly known as American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
and Transgendered Book Award)
First awarded in 1971, the Stonewall Book Awards are the first literary
awards recognizing books that relate to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgenedered
experience.
Affiliation: American Library Association
Multiple Recipients
http://www.ala.org/ala/glbtrt/stonewall/stonewallbook.htm
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Sydney Taylor Book Award
This award is given for the most outstanding books of Jewish content
for children. The award is named in honor of the late Sydney Taylor,
author of the classic All-of-a-Kind Family books about a Jewish immigrant
family at the turn of the twentieth century.
Affiliation: Association of Jewish Libraries
Latest Recipients:
Younger Readers: New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story by April Halprin Wayland and Stephane Jorisch
Older Readers:The Importance of Wings by Robin Friedman
Teens: Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/index.htm
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USM Medallion
Affiliation: University of Southern Mississippi
Latest Recipient: Judy Blume
http://www.usm.edu/slis/bookfest.htm
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Western Heritage Award
Western Heritage Awards are given to literature, film and television
that endeavor to preserve the Western Heritage of the United States.
Only the winners of the Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry awards are listed
here. Please see the official site for a list of all winners.
Affiliation: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Latest Recipients:
multiple
winners
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/events/wha/Default.aspx
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the AmericanLibrary Association, the Laura Ingalls WilderAward was first given to its namesake in1954. The award, a bronze medal, honors anauthor or illustrator whose books, published inthe United States, have made, over a period ofyears, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Affiliation: American Library Association
Latest Recipient: Ashley Bryan
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/index.cfm
Carter G. Woodson Awards
Given annually since 1974, these awards are intended to encourage the writing, publishing, and dissemination of outstanding social science books for young readers that treat topics related to ethnic minorities and relations sensitively and accurately.
Affiliation: National Council for the Social Studies
Latest Recipients:
Elementary Level: Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise
Middle Level: Black and White Airmen: Their True History by John Fleischman
Secondary Level: Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man by Vincent Collin Beach
http://www.socialstudies.org/awards/woodson
Wordcraft Circle Award
Recognizing commitment and contributions to ensuring voices of Native writers and storytellers past, present and future are heard throughout the world.
http://www.nativewiki.org/The_Wordcraft_Circle_of_Native_Writers_and_Storytellers
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Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature
The Award for Young Readers' Literature was inaugurated in 1991 and is given annually by the Tulsa Library Trust. In 1992, it was permanently named in honor of Anne V. Zarrow. Its purpose is to give formal recognition, on behalf of the Tulsa County community, to nationally acclaimed authors who have made a significant contribution to the field of literature for children and young adults.
Affiliation: The Tulsa Library Trust
Latest Recipient: Christopher Paul Curtis
http://teens.tulsalibrary.org/booksandreading/zarrow.htm
Charlotte Zolotow Award
This award, presented by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is given for outstanding writing in a picture book.
Affiliation: Cooperative Children's Book Center
Latest Recipient: Carmen Tafolla for What Can You Do with a Paleta?