Literary award

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A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.

Organizations

Most literary awards come with a corresponding award

Orange Prize
).

Types of awards

There are awards for various writing formats including

English).[5]

Other international literary prizes include the Nobel Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. 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:

Lyttle Lytton Contests
, given to deliberately bad grammar

There are also literary awards targeted specifically to encourage the writing from African-American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are

Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
, which is a given by the National Community of Black Writers.

Criticism

Australian author

bourgeois bad taste." He says juries can be influenced by vendettas, paybacks and payoffs, "most judges are fair-minded people. But hate, conceit and jealousy are no less human attributes than wisdom, judgment and knowledge."[6]
Book prizes will sometimes compete with one another, and these goals do not always coincide with anointing the best winner. Sometimes juries can not decide between two contentious books so they will compromise with a third inoffensive bland book. He says there are now so many awards and prizes it has diluted the prestige of being a prize-winning book. Flanagan clarifies he is not against literary awards, but believes they should not be taken too seriously as a form of support for literary culture.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Miguel de Cervantes Prize at Spain is culture". www.spainisculture.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-16. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  2. ^ Santos, Nina (29 March 2017). "A Brief History of the Camões Prize". Culture Trip. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  3. ^ "Booker Prize | British literary award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-06-20. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  4. ^ "The Rathbones Folio Prize | The Rathbones Folio Prize". Archived from the original on 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  5. ^ "Hugo Awards". DisCon III. Archived from the original on 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  6. ^ Richard Flanagan (June 16, 2012). "A loss for words". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2012.

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