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2023-2024 Book Awards and Book Prize Winners

Updated: May 22, 2024

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Carrie Thornbrugh

Each year, the literary world honors remarkable works and authors across all genres. Here is a roundup of the most prestigious literary awards and the most recent winners or nominees to date in 2024. Check back for updates!  Be sure to add the titles below to your "Want to Read” shelf or include your next book club pick poll!  If you don’t have a Bookclubs account yet, it’s easy and free to get started.

 

Booker Prize 

The Booker Prize is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction. Founded in the UK in 1969, the Booker Prize initially rewarded Commonwealth writers and now spans the globe: it is open to anyone regardless of origin. The winning book is a work that not only speaks to our current times, but also one that will endure and join the pantheon of great literature.

2024 Winner:

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck translated by Michael Hofmann

 

2023 Winner:

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch + Book Club Discussion Guide

 

Booker International Prize 

A counterpart to the Booker Prize, the International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.

Shortlist finalists:

 

British Book Award

These awards occur annually in Britain and affirms, connects and energises the world of reading by showcasing the authors and illustrators who have stirred our hearts and imaginations, and the industry behind the scenes who have brought them to readers. The 2024 shortlist contains 72 titles across 12 categories. This year’s winners will be announced May 13, 2024.  

2023 Winners:


 

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is the first major English-language literary prize to celebrate creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States.

 

2024 Shortlist:


 

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards, first presented in 1953 are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention; this year’s winners will be announced Aug 11, 2024.

2024 Shortlist for Best Science Fiction Novel:

 

National Book Award

Established in 1950, these awards recognize and celebrate the best of American literature presented by The National Book Foundation. The judges for the 2024 National Book Awards will select 50 Longlist titles, 10 per category, to be announced mid-September, and 25 Finalists, to be announced on October 1, 2024. Winners in all five categories (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature) will be announced at the 75th National Book Awards on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. 

2023 Winners:


 

National Book Critics Circle Award

Started in 1976, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.

2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners:


 

Nobel Prize in Literature 

One of the highest honors in the literary world, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Jon Fosse, "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books, and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognized for his prose.

 

PEN America Literary Awards

Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards have honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, and drama.

2023 Book Award Winners:

 

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips. A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.

 

Women’s Prize for Fiction and Nonfiction

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the most successful, influential, and popular literary prizes in the world, championing and amplifying women’s voices and nurturing a global community of readers. The Prize was established in 1996 to highlight and remedy the imbalance in coverage, respect and reverence given to women writers versus their male peers, creating a platform for exceptional writing by women to shine. The 2024 winners of the Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced June 13, 2024.

Shortlist of Fiction finalists:

 

Shortlist of Non-Fiction finalists:

 

Writer’s Prize

Previously known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, this is a literary award for the truest example of literary excellence. It can be awarded to any literature written in English published in the UK, excluding books written for children.

2023 Winners:

 

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