Category talk:Literary Awards

• The British and Commonwealth literary prizes can be divided up into three categories:

1. the first correlate to bestseller lists presenting the most successful novels on the market (British Book Awards)
2. niche prizes reward authors of texts according to gender, age or experience (awards and prizes represented by Booktrust and the Society of Authors)
3. prestige prizes, which include the Costa Book Awards, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and, the most influential, Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

• British Book Awards:

• The Book People Lifetime Achievement Award
• The Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
• Reader's Digest Author of the Year
• Amazon.co.uk Biography of the Year
• Borders Book of the Year
• WHSmith Children's Book of the Year
• BCA Crime Thriller of the Year
• Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year
• Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
• Tesco Sports Book of the Year
• PLAY.COM Film & TV Book of the Year
• decibel Writer of the Year

• Booktrust:

• New Writing Ventures (National prizes and awards for emerging writers in poetry, fiction and non-fiction, launched by The New Writing Partnership),
• The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize (A prize for women in publishing in Britain),
• Early Years Awards (formerly Sainsbury's Baby Book Award),
• Booktrust Teenage Prize (Recognising and celebrating contemporary teenage fiction),
• Nestlé Children's Book Prize (For the best work of fiction or poetry for children in three age categories - up to 11 years, formerly the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize),
• The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, (novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year, prize: £30,000, and a bronze sculpture called the "Bessie" created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven )
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (open to British and Commonwealth writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama aged 35 or under; winner receives £5,000 and runners up £500)

• Society of Authors:

• The Cholmondeley Awards (totalling £8,000 are awarded annually to honour distinguished poets),
• The Olive Cook and Tom-Gallon Awards (both prizes of £1,000 for a short story, biennially, in alternate years),
• The Encore Awards (of £10,000 for the best published second novel of the year, entry by the publisher),
• The Eric Gregory Awards (totalling £24,000 each year, awarded to British poets under the age of 30 on the basis of a submitted collection, published and unpublished collections),
• The Richard Imison Award (of £1,500 is an annual award for the best dramatic work broadcast on radio, entry by the producer),
• The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (of £3,000 for the best published historical biography of the year, no unsolicited submissions accepted),
• The Somerset Maugham Awards (totalling £12,000 each year are awarded to British authors under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, entry by the publisher),
• The McKitterick Prize (of £4,000 is awarded for a first novel by an author over the age of 40, published and unpublished novels),
• The Betty Trask Prize and Awards (totalling £25,000 are awarded to authors under the age of 35 for a first novel, published or unpublished),
• The The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (of £5,000, awarded to a British author under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, entry by publisher
• The Travelling Scholarships (honorary awards made annually to British writers, submissions not accepted),

• The interest of prestige prizes does not necessarily lie in selecting the best novels from a long-list pile but rather in fostering those most likely to succeed.