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Inaugurated in 1992, this is an annual award celebrating "excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world".

Established in 2009 in the EU to recognize the best emerging authors in Europe.

Also known as the "Nibbie prize", this annual British award takes into account critical acclaim and commercial success alike.

The most famous international prize, awarded to authors usually (but not excusively) for their whole body of work.

The Man Booker Foundation confers both the Man Booker Prize (awarded each year to the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK) and The Man Booker International Prize (given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation).

These awards recognize fiction and poetry by American authors, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.

An American literary prize given to US authors for books published in the United States during the award year.

The most important Italian literary prize, awarded annually for the best work of prose fiction by an Italian author (first published between 1 May of the previous year and 30 April of the award year).