2. Kafka Prize: This is to commemorate Kafka's literary prize, which was jointly sponsored by the Czech Prague government and the Kafka Association in Prague. Although there is no nationality restriction for this literary prize, you must have a work translated into Czech before you can stand for election. Haruki Murakami won this honor in 2006, and Yan Lianke is the only Chinese writer who won this honor.
3. Booker Prize: The Booker Prize in Britain has now become a literary award with world influence, and the Booker Prize is considered as the highest prize of contemporary English novels. Naipaul and Ian McEwan, who are familiar to readers in China, have won this honor, and Schindler's List, The English Patient and The Fantasy Drifting of Pi have all been on the list.
4、? Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the oldest and most famous literary awards in America. Many famous writers have won this award, including sinclair lewis, Pearl Buck, Hemingway, Faulkner, john steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and other Nobel Prize in Literature winners. Award-winning works include The Age of Innocence, Gone with the Wind, The Old Man and the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird.
5. American National Book Award: established in March 1950, 16. Awards are mainly divided into fiction, non-fiction, poetry and youth literature. In each category, the final winner will receive a prize of $6.5438+0 million and a bronze statue. Writers such as william faulkner, Saul Bellow, philip roth, susan sontag and jonathan franzen ... won this honor.
Extended materials Laoshe Literature Award, Mao Dun Literature Award, Lu Xun Literature Award and Cao Yu Drama Literature Award are also called the four major literary awards in contemporary China:
1, "Lao She Literature Award" is the highest prize in China at present. It is a comprehensive literature and art award for the whole country, held once every three years, jointly organized by Lao She Literature and Art Foundation and Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
2. "Mao Dun Literature Award" is the first literary award named after a person in China, which only rewards novel creation. Mao Dun Literature Award is sponsored by Chinese Writers Association. Founded in 1982, it is selected every four years.
3. The "Lu Xun Literature Award" was established to encourage the creation of excellent novellas, short stories, reportage, poems, essays, essays, literary theories and critical works, encourage the translation of excellent foreign literary works, and promote the prosperity and development of socialist literature.
4. "Cao Yu Drama Literature Award" is a national award for excellent script creation, which represents the highest level of drama creation in China. Its predecessor was the National Excellent Screenplay Award, which was founded in 1980. 1994, the award was renamed Cao Yu Drama Literature Award. ?
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Nobel Prize in Literature
Baidu Encyclopedia-Kafka Award?
Baidu Encyclopedia-Booker Award
Baidu Encyclopedia-Pulitzer Prize for Novels
Baidu Encyclopedia-American National Book Award