The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy Literature Award to those who have created the best works with ideal tendency in the field of literature. Famous winners include Marquez, Tagore, romain rolland, hermann hesse, Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Yasunari Kawabata, Kenzaburo Oe, Naipaul and so on. Famous works include Piano Teacher, Lord of the Flies, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in Cholera Period, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, Ancient Capital, Outsider, Plague, The Old Man and the Sea, Wolf in the Wilderness, My Name is Red, Escape and Solomon.
2. Kafka Prize
As the name implies, this is to commemorate franz kafka prize, which was jointly initiated by the Czech Prague government and the Prague Kafka Association. Although there is no nationality restriction, you must have a work translated into Czech to stand for election. Haruki Murakami won this honor in 2006, and Yan Lianke is the only Chinese writer who won this honor.
3. Booker Prize
The Booker Prize in Britain has become a literary prize with world influence and is considered as the highest prize of contemporary British novels. Naipaul and Ian McEwan, who are familiar to readers in China, have won this honor, and Schindler's List, The English Patient and The Fantasy Drifting of Pi have all been on the list.
China writers Wang Anyi and Su Tong 20 1 1 became China writers nominated for Booker International Award for the first time, and Yan Lianke 20 13 was nominated for Booker International Literature Award. But so far, no China writer has won this prize.
4. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the oldest and most famous literary awards in America. Many famous writers have won this award, including sinclair lewis, Pearl Buck, Hemingway, Faulkner, john steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and other Nobel Prize in Literature winners. Award-winning works include The Age of Innocence, Gone with the Wind, The Old Man and the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird.
5. Naoki Award.
The highest honor of Japanese literature is awarded twice a year, and the winners are mainly the backbone writers of popular works. Famous writers Ryotaro Shiba, Miyuki Miyabe, Natsume Soseki and Keigo Higashino are all winners of this award. Famous works include: Keigo Higashino's The Dedication of Suspect X, Akiyuki Nosaka's The Tomb of Fireflies, Miyuki Miyabe's The Reason, Sakuragi's My Man, Areno Inoue's Cutting Feathers, Renjo Mikihiko's Love Story, Shusuke Michio's The Moon and the Crab, etc. Its bonus is about 20,000 yuan, which is not very high, but once a writer wins the prize, just like a yellow robe, he can easily get a manuscript and a very high salary by relying on this title, so he is also regarded as a stepping stone for literary youth.
6. Akutagawa Ryunosuke Award
Commonly known as "Akutagawa Prize". Sponsored by the Japan Literature Promotion Association, it aims to encourage new writers. Famous works include: nanae Aoyama's Fine Weather for One, Ogawa Yoko's Pregnancy Calendar, Oe Kensaburo's Feeding, Ry? Murakami's Almost Infinite Transparent Blue, Shuichi Yoshida's Life in the Park, etc.
7. gungur literature prize.
The most important literary prize in France is awarded every June 165438+ 10. The first prize was awarded on June 1903 with a prize of 5,000 francs. This award was established by the French writer Edmund de Goncourt in the 9th century A.D./KLOC-0 for his younger brother Jules de Goncourt, who died young. They are all representatives of French naturalistic novels. In addition to the Gungur Award, Gungur College also selects other awards every year, including the Gungur Poetry Award and the Gungur First Novel Award. Winner's representative: marcel proust's reminiscence of the past (1919); Marguerite duras's lover (1984); The dark streets of modiano; Michel Tunier's King of Arnous, etc.
8. Dublin Prize for Literature
Founded in 1996, it is the single literary prize with the highest prize in the world (the winner can get 65,438+million euros, about140,000 USD). As long as it is an English novel or an English novel in any language, it can compete for this award. Winners' representatives: My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, It's quiet up there by Brandt Barker, and Open Classics: It's no big deal by Alistair Macloud.
9. Allen Poe Award
Excellent detective novelists all over the world have created the most authoritative award-the edgar allan poe Prize. The name comes from the famous American mystery writer Ellen Poe, and the winning works are decided by the committee appointed by the American Detective Writers Association. Winners' representatives: The Banker's Lover by Ken follett, Western jackdaw in the West by Ken follett, Days of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, and Diagnosis of impossible crime by Edward Hoch.
10. Hugo Award.
This Hugo is not a great writer we are familiar with, but an American inventor, writer and magazine publisher born in Luxembourg. He once published the first science fiction magazine. In some descriptions, he, together with jules verne and herbert george wells, is called "the father of science fiction", so this award is a literary prize for science fiction or fantasy novels. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won the 200 1 Best Novel Award.
Liu won the Best Novel Award in the 73rd Hugo Award for his science fiction novel Three-body, which was the first time that an Asian won the Hugo Award. 2065438+August 2, 20061day, Hao won the short story award for "Beijing Folding".
1 1. Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Once every four years, the entries must be novels with more than 6.5438+0.3 million words. Although there are still many controversies, Mao Dun Literature Award is still the most important literary award in China. Since 20 1 1, under the sponsorship of Mr. Li Ka-shing, the prize of Mao Dun Literature Award has been increased from 50,000 to 500,000, making it the highest prize in China.
Winners: Gu Hua's furong town, Lu Yao's Ordinary World, Chen's White Deer Plain, Alai's Dust Settled, Wang Anyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, Chi Zijian's Right Bank of the River, Mai Jia's Plot, Bi Feiyu's Massage, Mo Yan's Frog and Jin Yucheng's.