This page links you to winners and nominees for a range of book prizes and awards.
Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
- Children’s literary prizes
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New Zealand literary prizes
- Writing prizes (essays and unpublished works)
- International prizes including
New Zealand
- Kathleen Grattan Award (poetry)
- New Zealand Book Awards known previously as:
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From 2016: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
- 2010 - 2014: New Zealand Post Book Awards
- 1996 - 2009: Montana New Zealand Book Awards
- 1994 - 1995: Montana Book Awards
- 1976 - 1995: New Zealand Book Awards
- 1968 - 1993: Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards
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- Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Non Fiction
- Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
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Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement
- Prize in Modern Letters (ceased in 2008)
- Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror)
Writing Prizes
These are awards for essays and/or unpublished works.
- BNZ Literary Awards (formerly the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards - ceased in 2014)
- Landfall Essay Competition
- Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
International
Authors
Prizes awarded for the author’s body of work.
- David Cohen Prize (body of work)
- Nobel Prize in Literature
Fiction
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
- Booker Prize
- Women’s Prize for Fiction
- Commonwealth Writers (ceased in 2013)
- Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread) (ceased in 2021)
- International Booker Prize
- International Dylan Thomas Prize
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International DUBLIN Literary Award (Christchurch City Libraries nominations) - James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction
- Lambda Literary Awards
- National Book Award - Fiction
- Notable Books - Fiction
- National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction
- PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
- Pulitzer Prize - Fiction
- Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)
Genre fiction: mystery, horror, crime, fantasy and science fiction
- Anthony Awards (mystery)
- Bram Stoker Awards (horror)
- Crime Writers’ Association Awards
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Edgar Allan Poe Awards (mystery)
- Hugo Awards for Science Fiction
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
- Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror by New Zealanders)
- Nebula Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)
- World Fantasy Awards
Lists
- Granta Best of Young British Novelists 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013
- Notable Books
New Writers
- Betty Trask Prize and Awards (for writers under 35)
- Commonwealth Writers (ceased in 2013)
- Costa First Novel Award
- Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (mystery/crime)
- Guardian First Book Award (was Guardian Fiction Award - ceased in 2015)
- International Dylan Thomas Prize (restricted to authors under 39)
Non-fiction
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
- Costa Biography Award
- Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
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Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
- Hugo award for related works (science fiction and fantasy)
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography
- Lambda Literary Awards (nonfiction prizes given in the Bisexual and Transgender categories)
- National Book Award - Non-Fiction (USA)
- National Book Critics Circle Awards (General Non-Fiction, Biography, Autobiography / Memoir) (USA)
- Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Non Fiction
- Notable Books - Non-fiction
- Pulitzer Prizes (General Nonfiction, Biography or Autobiography, History, Drama)
- Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize (formerly Winton)
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (formerly The Samuel Johnson Prize)
- Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)
Poetry
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The Costa Poetry Award
- CLPE Poetry Award (children's)
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- International Dylan Thomas Prize
- Kathleen Grattan Award
- National Book Award – Poetry
- Notable Books - Poetry
- Pulitzer Prize: Poetry
