Literary Honours and Awards

 

Literary Honours and Awards

Booker Prize: The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The prize was established as the Booker Prize for Fiction after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in 1969.

When the prize was first created, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel.  First winner of Booker is P. H. Newby (UK) for “Something to Answer For” in 1969.

Booker of the booker (special prizes)

1)In 1993, on 25th anniversary, "Booker of Bookers" Prize was given to Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children,

2)In 2008, on 40th anniversary, "Best of Booker" Prize was given to Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children,

3)In 2018, on 50th anniversary, “Golden Man Booker” was awarded from the best of five nominees: Naipaul's In a Free State (the 1971 winner), Lively's Moon Tiger (1987), Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992), Mantel's Wolf Hall and Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo.  The winner, by popular vote, was The English Patient.

Year	Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country
1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For	Novel	UK
1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member	Novel	UK
1971	V. S. Naipaul (Indian origin)	In a Free State	Novel	UK/ Trinidad and Tobago
1972	John Berger	G.	Experimental novel	UK
1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur	Novel	UK/ Ireland
1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Novel	South Africa
	Stanley Middleton	Holiday	Novel	UK
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	Historical novel	UK/Germany
1976	David Storey	Saville	Novel	UK
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On	Novel	UK
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea	Philosophical novel	Ireland/ UK
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore	Novel	UK
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage	Novel	UK
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	Magic realism	UK (Indian Origin)
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark	Biographical novel	Australia
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K	Novel	South Africa
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac	Novel	UK
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People	Mystery novel	New Zealand
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils	Comic novel	UK
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger	Novel	UK
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	Historical novel	Australia
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	Historical novel	UK
1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession	Historical novel	UK
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Magic realism	Nigeria
1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Historiographic metafiction	Canada
	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger	Historical novel	UK
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Novel	Ireland
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	Stream of consciousness	UK
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road	War novel	UK
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders	Novel	UK
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Novel	India
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam	Novel	UK
1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Novel	South Africa
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Historical novel	Canada
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Historical novel	Australia
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Fantasy and adventure novel	Canada
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Black comedy	Australia
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	Historical novel	UK
2005	John Banville	The Sea	Novel	Ireland
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel	India
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Novel	Ireland
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Novel	India
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Historical novel	UK
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Comic novel	UK
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	UK
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies	Historical novel	UK
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	Historical novel	New Zealand
2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Historical novel	Australia
2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings	Historical/experimental novel	Jamaica
2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Satirical novel	USA
2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo	Historical/experimental novel	USA
2018	Anna Burns	Milkman	Novel	UK
2019	Margaret Atwood	The Testaments	Novel	Canada
	Bernardine Evaristo	Girl, Woman, Other	Experimental novel	UK
2020	Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain	Novel	UK/ USA
2021	Damon Galgut	The Promise	Novel	South Africa
2022	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida	Novel	Srilanka
2023	Paul Lynch	Prophet Song	Novel	Ireland
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Nobel Prize Winners: 

The Nobel Prize in Literature is one of many Nobel Prizes given in honor of Alfred Nobel. Every year, a writer is chosen by the Swedish Academy to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 113 times to 117 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2020.First winner is Sully Prudhomme in 1901 of France (French)

Nobel winners in English Literature:

Year	Name	Country	Language(s)
1901	Sully Prudhomme	France	French
1902	Theodor Mommsen	Germany	German
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Norway	Norwegian
1904	Frédéric Mistral	France	Occitan
	José Echegaray y Eizaguirre	Spain	Spanish
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Poland	Polish
1906	Giosuè Carducci	Italy	Italian
1907	Rudyard Kipling	United Kingdom	English
1908	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	Germany	German
1909	Selma Lagerlöf	Sweden	Swedish
1910	Paul Heyse	Germany	German
1911	Count Maurice Maeterlinck	Belgium	French
1912	Gerhart Hauptmann	Germany	German
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	India	Bengali
1915	Romain Rolland	France	French
1916	Verner von Heidenstam	Sweden	Swedish
1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	Denmark	Danish
	Henrik Pontoppidan	Denmark	Danish
1919	Carl Spitteler	Switzerland	German
1920	Knut Hamsun	Norway	Norwegian
1921	Anatole France	France	French
1922	Jacinto Benavente	Spain	Spanish
1923	William Butler Yeats	Ireland	English
1924	Władysław Reymont	Poland	Polish
1925	George Bernard Shaw	Ireland	English
1926	Grazia Deledda	Italy	Italian
1927	Henri Bergson	France	French
1928	Sigrid Undset	Norway	Norwegian
1929	Thomas Mann	Germany	German
1930	Sinclair Lewis	United States	English
1931	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Sweden	Swedish
1932	John Galsworthy	United Kingdom	English
1933	Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin	Russia (in exile)	Russian
1934	Luigi Pirandello	Italy	Italian
1936	Eugene O'Neill	United States	English
1937	Roger Martin du Gard	France	French
1938	Pearl S. Buck	United States	English
1939	Frans Eemil Sillanpää	Finland	Finnish
1944	Johannes Vilhelm Jensen	Denmark	Danish
1945	Gabriela Mistral	Chile	Spanish
1946	Hermann Hesse	Switzerland	German
1947	André Gide	France	French
1948	T. S. Eliot	United States/United Kingdom	English
1949	William Faulkner	United States	English
1950	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	English
1951	Pär Lagerkvist	Sweden	Swedish
1952	François Mauriac	France	French
1953	Sir Winston Churchill	United Kingdom	English
1954	Ernest Hemingway	United States	English
1955	Halldór Laxness	Iceland	Icelandic
1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	Spain	Spanish
1957	Albert Camus	France	French
1958	Boris Pasternak (declined the prize)	Russia	Russian
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	Italy	Italian
1960	Saint-John Perse	France	French
1961	Ivo Andric	Yugoslavia	Serbo-Croat
1962	John Steinbeck	United States	English
1963	Giorgos Seferis	Greece	Greek
1964	Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize)	France	French
1965	Michail Sholokhov	Russia	Russian
1966	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	Israel	Hebrew
	Nelly Sachs	Germany	German
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias	Guatemala	Spanish
1968	Yasunari Kawabata	Japan	Japanese
1969	Samuel Beckett	Ireland	English/French
1970	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Russia	Russian
1971	Pablo Neruda	Chile	Spanish
1972	Heinrich Böll	Germany (West)	German
1973	Patrick White	Australia	English
1974	Eyvind Johnson	Sweden	Swedish
	Harry Martinson	Sweden	Swedish
1975	Eugenio Montale	Italy	Italian
1976	Saul Bellow	Canada/United States	English
1977	Vicente Aleixandre	Spain	Spanish
1978	Isaac Bashevis Singer	United States	Yiddish
1979	Odysseas Elytis	Greece	Greek
1980	Czesław Miłosz	Lithuania/Poland/United States	Polish
1981	Elias Canetti	United Kingdom	German
1982	Gabriel García Márquez	Colombia	Spanish
1983	William Golding	United Kingdom	English
1984	Jaroslav Seifert	Czechoslovakia	Czech
1985	Claude Simon	France	French
1986	Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka	Nigeria	English
1987	Joseph Brodsky	Russia/United States	Russian/English
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt	Arabic
1989	Camilo José Cela	Spain	Spanish
1990	Octavio Paz	Mexico	Spanish
1991	Nadine Gordimer	South Africa	English
1992	Derek Walcott	St. Lucia	English
1993	Toni Morrison	United States	English
1994	Kenzaburo Oe	Japan	Japanese
1995	Seamus Heaney	Ireland	English
1996	Wisława Szymborska	Poland	Polish
1997	Dario Fo	Italy	Italian
1998	José Saramago	Portugal	Portuguese
1999	Günter Grass	Germany	German
2000	Gao Xingjian	France/China	Chinese
2001	Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul	United Kingdom (Indian Origin)	English
2002	Imre Kertész	Hungary	Hungarian
2003	John Maxwell Coetzee	South Africa	English
2004	Elfriede Jelinek	Austria	German
2005	Harold Pinter	United Kingdom	English
2006	Orhan Pamuk	Turkey	Turkish
2007	Doris Lessing	United Kingdom	English
2008	J. M. G. Le Clézio	France	French
2009	Herta Müller	Germany	German
2010	Mario Vargas Llosa	Peru	Spanish
2011	Tomas Tranströmer	Sweden	Swedish
2012	Mo Yan	People's Republic of China	Chinese
2013	Alice Munro	Canada	English
2014	Patrick Modiano	France	French
2015	Svetlana Alexievich	Belarus	Russian
2016	Bob Dylan	United States	English
2017	Kazuo Ishiguro	United Kingdom	English
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	Poland	Polish
2019	Peter Handke	Germany	German
2020	Louise Glück	United States	English
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	Tanzanian-born British novelist	English
2022	Annie Ernaux	French Writer	French
2023	Jon Fosse	Norway	Norwegian Nynorsk
2024

PULITZER PRIZE

The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer (Newspaper publisher) to launch a journalism school and establish the Pulitzer Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships. He specified "four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships.

            As of 2023, prizes are awarded annually in twenty-three categories. In twenty-two of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

 

There are Eight categories in letters, Drama and Music:

1.     Biography – from 1917, for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author.

2.     Drama – from 1917, for a distinguished play by an American playwright, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.

3.     Fiction –since 1948, for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. (awarded earlier as Novel from 1917-1947)

4.     General Nonfiction – Since 1962, for a distinguished and appropriately documented book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.

5.     History – from 1917, for a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.

6.     Memoir or Autobiography – from 1923, for a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author.

7.     Poetry – from 1922, for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American poet.

8.     Music- from 1943,

 

SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 languages (22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.)

Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹ 1,00,000. The plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi was designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray.

Other awards:

1. Sahitya Akademi Fellowships

2. Basha Samman- since 1996

3. Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize

4. Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar

5. Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar

Year	Book	Writer	Category of Books
1960	The Guide	R. K. Narayan	Novel
1964	The Serpent and the Rope	Raja Rao	Novel
1965	The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin	Verrier Elwin	Autobiography
1967	Shadow From Ladakh	Bhabani Bhattacharya	Novel
1969	An Artist in Life	Niharranjan Ray	Biography
1971	Morning Face	Mulk Raj Anand	Novel
1975	Scholar Extraordinary	Nirad C. Chaudhuri	Biography
1976	Jawaharlal Nehru	Sarvepalli Gopal	Biography
1977	Azadi	Chaman Nahal	Novel
1978	Fire on the Mountain	Anita Desai	Novel
1979	Inside the Haveli	Rama Mehta	Novel
1980	On the Mother	K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar	Biography
1981	Relationship	Jayanta Mahapatra	Poetry
1982	The Last Labyrinth	Arun Joshi	Novel
1983	Latter-Day Psalms	Nissim Ezekiel	Poetry
1984	The Keeper of the Dead	Keki N. Daruwalla	Poetry
1985	Collected Poems	Kamala Das	Poetry
1986	Rich Like Us	Nayantara Sahgal	Novel
1987	Trapfalls In the Sky	Shiv K. Kumar	Poetry
1988	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth	Novel
1989	The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	Novel
1990	That Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande	Novel
1991	The Trotter-Nama	I. Allan Sealy	Novel
1992	Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra	Ruskin Bond	Novel
1993	After Amnesia	G. N. Devy	Essays
1994	Serendip	Dom Moraes	Poetry
1996	Memories of Rain	Sunetra Gupta	Novel
1998	Final Solutions and Other Plays	Mahesh Dattani	Drama
1999	The Collected Poems	A. K. Ramanujan	Poetry
2000	Cuckold	Kiran Nagarkar	Novel
2001	Rajaji: A Life	Rajmohan Gandhi	Biography
2002	A New World	Amit Chaudhuri	Novel
2003	The Perishable Empire	Meenakshi Mukherjee	Essays
2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Upamanyu Chatterjee	Novel
2005	The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy	Essays
2006	The Sari Shop	Rupa Bajwa	Novel
2007	Disorderly Women	Malathi Rao	Novel
2009	Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition	Chaturvedi Badrinath	Criticism
2010	The Book of Rachel	Esther David	Novel
2011	India after Gandhi	Ramachandra Guha	Historical Narrative
2012	These Errors are Correct	Jeet Thayil	Poetry
2013	Laburnum For My Head	Temsula Ao	Short stories
2014	Trying to Say Goodbye	Adil Jussawalla	Poetry
2015	Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer	Cyrus Mistry	Novel
2016	Em and the Big Hoom	Jerry Pinto	Novel
2017	The Black Hill	Mamang Dai	Novel
2018	The Blind Lady's Descendants	Anees Salim	Novel
2019	An Era of Darkness	Shashi Tharoor	Novel (non-fiction)
2020	When God is a Traveller	Arundhathi Subramaniam	Poetry
2021	Things to Leave Behind	Namita Gokhale	Novel
2022	All the Lives We Never Lived	Anuradha Roy	Novel