Major domestic literary awards:
Luxun literature prize
The establishment of the Lu Xun Literature Award encourages the creation of China's excellent short stories, reportage, poems, essays, essays, literary theories and critical works, and encourages the translation of outstanding Chinese and foreign literary works. Sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association, it is one of the highest literary awards in China. Lu Xun Literature Prize is awarded every two years.
Mao Dun Literature Awards
The Mao Dun Literature Award was sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association, and was established at 198 1 to encourage the creation of excellent novels according to the wishes of the famous writer Mao Dun before his death. It is one of the highest literary awards in China. Mao Dun Literature Award is selected every four years.
Laoshe literature prize
Lao She Literature Award is the highest prize in Beijing literature and art sponsored by Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Lao She Literature and Art Foundation, which is used to reward the creation of Beijing-born writers and outstanding works published in Beijing. Awards include novels, novellas, drama scripts, movies, TV dramas and radio dramas.
Feng Mu Prize for Literature
Mainly to encourage newcomers, once a year, with three awards: 1. Young critic award; 2. Literary Newcomer Award; 3. Military Literature Creation Award. These three awards mainly focus on young and middle-aged writers and critics.
Spring literature prize
In June 5438 +2000 10, the famous writer Wang Meng donated the 654.38+10,000 yuan prize he won in the first "Contemporary Literature Gathering" to People's Literature Publishing House, and proposed to establish a literary newcomer award under 30 years old, that is, the Spring Literature Award. This award is awarded annually to a young writer under the age of 30 who has made outstanding achievements in literary creation.
Cao Yu Drama Literature Award (1994 onwards)
The National Screenplay Creation Award represents the highest level of China's drama literature creation. Its predecessor was 1980 National Excellent Screenplay Award founded by Chinese Dramatists Association, and 1994 was renamed Cao Yu Drama Literature Award, sponsored by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chinese Dramatists Association. Once a year, the official award of 10 and the nomination award of 10 are awarded every session.
Yao won the literature prize (2003-present)
Sponsored by the China Literature Foundation of the Chinese Writers Association, according to the wishes and donations of the famous writer Yao, the "Yao Long Historical Novel Award Fund" was established to reward outstanding long historical novels. The award is selected every four years.
Everyone Red River Literature Award (1995 onwards)
Co-founded by Yunnan People's Publishing House Everyone Magazine and Yunnan Honghe Cigarette Factory. The bonus amount is 6,543,800 yuan. The selection targets are all authors of published works by everyone. Once every two years, there is one prize for each session, and one person for each prize.
New Concept Composition Competition (from 1998)
Initiated by Germination magazine and co-sponsored by ten famous universities. This composition award for senior high school students emphasizes "new thinking, new expression and true experience" and once became a "through train" for college enrollment and teenagers to become famous.
China Literature and Media Award (since 2003)
Sponsored by Southern Metropolis Daily, it is the first literary award established by mass media in China. This award is held once a year. There are six awards: Outstanding Achievement Award of the Year, Novelist of the Year, Poet of the Year, Prose Writer of the Year, Literary Critics of the Year and Most Potential Newcomer of the Year. The highest single prize in the second session is still 6,543,800 yuan, but the total prize money has risen to 200,000 yuan, which is the highest literary prize in China.
Dangdai Magazine "Novel of the Year Award" (since 2004)
Major foreign literature awards:
Brief introduction of Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature is one of the five awards mentioned in alfred nobel's will. In his will, he said that part of the prize should be awarded to "those who have created the best works with ideal tendencies in the literary world". The awarding unit of the literature prize is the Swedish Academy Literature Prize.
The first literary prize was awarded in 190 1 year, and the winner was French poet sully prudhomme. Famous writers in history, such as Roman Roland, Bernard Shaw and Hemingway, have won this honor. Among the 96 award-winning writers, there are 73 European writers, 0 American writers, 5 Central and South American writers, 4 Asian writers, 3 African writers and 0 Australian writers.
National book award
The award is sponsored annually by the National Book Foundation, a non-profit organization. There are four awards: Best Novel Award, Best Non-fiction Award, Best Poetry Award and Best Juvenile Literature Award, and a special medal of honor. It is the most important literary prize in the United States, and the award ceremony is an annual event in the American literary world.
American Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize (19 17) was founded by Pulitzer, an American newspaper publisher, at Columbia University to reward people who have made outstanding contributions to American news, literature, drama and music. The literary awards of this award include novel award, performance script award, American history award, biography and autobiography award, poetry and popular non-fiction award. Awarded every spring.
British Booker prize
Booker Prize is one of the major literary prizes in Britain. Once a year, the best novel published in that year is awarded.
France gonggur literature prize
The Gonggur Prize for Literature was established in France on 1903. As early as 1874, the French writer Edmund Goncourt (1822- 1896) stipulated in his will that his legacy should be used as a fund in memory of his younger brother Jules de Goncourt (1830- 1870). Its influence in the French literary world is very important. As long as it is a novel that won the Gongur Prize, the French are willing to pay with their eyes closed.
Japan Akutagawa Award and Naoki Award
Since 1935, the Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize have been created by the Literature and Art Chunqiu Publishing Company in Japan to commemorate two famous writers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Naoki 35. These two awards are important literary awards in Japan, which are mainly awarded to newcomers in Japanese literary circles.