Pennsylvania Center for the Book

Selected Book Awards

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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. "

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

http://aila.library.sd.gov/


 

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



May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture

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


Pura Belpré Award

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

Latest Recipients

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

http://www.penfaulkner.org/



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

http://www.pulitzer.org/




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.

Affiliation: Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers

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?

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/zolotow.asp


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