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General Listing of Book Awards and Prizes

• Book Awards A-Z Database - http://www.literature-awards.com/bookawards.htm
 

Nobel Prize in Literature

• Nobel eMuseum - http://www.nobel.se/literature/index.html

Find out facts about all Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature through press releases, biographies, Nobel lectures, interviews, etc.
 

 

Pulitzer Prize in Literature

• Pulitzer Prize Winners - http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/catquery.cgi?type=w&category=Fiction&FormsButton5=Retrieve

• The Pulitzer Prize (and organization) - http://www.pulitzer.org/

 

Awards for Young Adult Literature

• Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature - http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz/index.html

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
 
• Alex Awards - http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex/index.html

The Alex Awards are given annually for five years beginning in 1998, to ten adult books that will be enjoyed by young adults, ages twelve through eighteen.

• Margaret A. Edwards Award - http://www.ala.org/yalsa/edwards/index.html

The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author's liftetime achievement for writing books that have been popular over a period of time.

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