Anna Auguscik at 17:49, 6 December 2007

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*The British and Commonwealth literary prizes can be divided up into three categories:
#the first correlate to bestseller lists presenting the most successful novels on the market (British Book Awards)
#niche prizes reward authors of texts according to gender, age or experience (awards and prizes represented by Booktrust and the Society of Authors)
# 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 Prize for Fiction|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 Award|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 Award|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 Award|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 [[Sunday Times Award|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.

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Anna Auguscik at 17:49, 6 December 2007