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| *The British and Commonwealth literary prizes can be divided up into three categories:
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| #the first correlate to bestseller lists presenting the most successful novels on the market (British Book Awards)
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| #niche prizes reward authors of texts according to gender, age or experience (awards and prizes represented by Booktrust and the Society of Authors)
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| # prestige prizes, which include the [[Costa Book Awards]], the [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] and, the most influential, Man [[Booker Prize]] for Fiction.
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| *[[British Book Awards]]:
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| :*The Book People Lifetime Achievement Award
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| :*The Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
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| :*Reader's Digest Author of the Year
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| :*Amazon.co.uk Biography of the Year
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| :*Borders Book of the Year
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| :*WHSmith Children's Book of the Year
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| :*BCA Crime Thriller of the Year
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| :*Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year
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| :*Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
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| :*Tesco Sports Book of the Year
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| :*PLAY.COM Film & TV Book of the Year
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| :*decibel Writer of the Year
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| *[[Booktrust]]:
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| :*New Writing Ventures (National prizes and awards for emerging writers in poetry, fiction and non-fiction, launched by The New Writing Partnership),
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| :*The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize (A prize for women in publishing in Britain),
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| :*Early Years Awards (formerly Sainsbury's Baby Book Award),
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| :*Booktrust Teenage Prize (Recognising and celebrating contemporary teenage fiction),
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| :*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),
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| :*The [[Orange Prize for Fiction|Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction]],
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| :*[[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)
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| *[[Society of Authors]]:
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| :*The Cholmondeley Awards (totalling £8,000 are awarded annually to honour distinguished poets),
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| :*The Olive Cook and Tom-Gallon Awards (both prizes of £1,000 for a short story, biennially, in alternate years),
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| :*The [[Encore Award|Encore Awards]] (of £10,000 for the best published second novel of the year, entry by the publisher),
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| :*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),
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| :*The Richard Imison Award (of £1,500 is an annual award for the best dramatic work broadcast on radio, entry by the producer),
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| :*The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (of £3,000 for the best published historical biography of the year, no unsolicited submissions accepted),
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| :*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),
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| :*The [[McKitterick Prize]] (of £4,000 is awarded for a first novel by an author over the age of 40, published and unpublished novels),
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| :*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),
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| :*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
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| :*The Travelling Scholarships (honorary awards made annually to British writers, submissions not accepted),
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| *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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