Europe’s multi-cultural landscape offers a wealth of literary awards recognizing the finest achievements in contemporary literature across multiple genres. Browse awards here.
Established in 2002 by the Swedish government, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award honors the memory of its namesake. The prize can be awarded to authors, illustrators, oral storytellers, and people or organizations all over the world who make reading accessible to children and young people. The prize is endowed with 5 million SEK.
Nobelpriset i Litteratur is one of the five Nobel prizes first mentioned in Alfred Nobel’s will, and is awarded by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Only certain institutions and individuals can make nominations such as the members of the Swedish Academy, members of academies and societies with similar tasks, professors of literary and linguistic subjects, former literary Nobel laureates, and chairmen of certain authors’ organizations. The chosen laureate will receive a prize of 10 million SEK at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Nobel Day.
Since 1989, the August Prize is awarded by the Swedish Publishers’ Association. It is named after the author and playwright August Stindberg and honors the best Swedish book of the year. Currently it is awarded in the categories Fiction, Non-fiction and Children’s book of the year. Winners receive 100,000 SEK and a bronze statuette created by the artist Michael Fare.
