Recently, the popularity of the Nobel Prize has remained high, and everyone has paid attention to who has spent this highest honor in the literary world. Abdulrazak Gurnah, a novelist from Tanzania, became the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature as a dark horse.
In fact, there are many literary awards in the world literary circle, although their popularity in China is not too high, but they all represent a very high level of awards.
Goncourt Literary Prize
The Goncourt Literary Prize was established in 1903 and originated in Romantic France, based on the French naturalist novelist Edmund de Goncourt for his brother Jules de Goncourt, to encourage the annual publication of French novels.
It is selected for several aspects of novels, short stories, and imaginative prose works, and is selected by the selection committee of the Goncourt Prize of Literature in France.
Interestingly, the Prize for Literature goncourt was unexpectedly only 10 euros.
It is said that because the prize money given at the beginning was very high, but the winning academician was not very good at financial management, resulting in the prize money being eaten up, after which the prize money was symbolically issued 10 euros, only enough for the price of a small cake.
I have to say that this has a very French mood and thinking. The more familiar winners and their works in China are: Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of the Watery Years" and Margaret Duras's "Lover".
Winners of the Goncourt Literary Prize in the past five years:
Booker Prize
In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Booker Prize in the UNITED Kingdom is one of the most influential literary awards in the world and the highest award in the contemporary English-language novel world to date.
The Booker Prize was proposed by the British book industry in 1968 and was born, at first because the award was sponsored by Booker, so it was called "Booker Award", and later the sponsor became man group, and the English name also became "Man booker prize", but the domestic habit is still translated as "Booker Award".
Booker Prize logo
The writers and works we are familiar with today who have won the award include Jan Martel's "The Fantastic Drift of Young Pi" and Thomas Kinnerly's "Schindler's List".
Booker Prize winners in the past five years:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is a literary award in the Pulitzer Prize established at the will of American newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer.
It is announced on a certain day in mid-April each year, and officially awarded by the president of Columbia University in May.
One condition for winning the Pulitzer Prize is that you must be a writer of American citizenship.
The media industry should be familiar with the Pulitzer Prize, and winning the Pulitzer Prize is the lifelong glory of a media person, which has later developed into the highest honor award of the American press, known as the "Nobel Prize of the Press".
And the literary awards set up in the journalism awards must also be to leave something for the times.
Although it is not as famous as the Nobel Prize in Literature, it does have some influence, and Hemingway, who won the prize, could actually win the Pulitzer Prize earlier for "For Whom the Death Knell Sounds", but for some reason, it was not awarded.
Fortunately, in 1953, Hemingway once again stood on the pulitzer prize podium with "The Old Man and the Sea", and of course, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also a classic that we are all familiar with.
Pulitzer Prize winners in the last five years:
Dublin Literary Prize
The Dublin Literature Prize was founded in 1996 and is a World Literature Award sponsored by the City of Dublin, Ireland, hosted by the Dublin City Library, and sponsored by THE American business management consultancy IMPAC, with the full name of the "International IMPAC Dublin Literature Award".
Winners can receive up to 100,000 euros in prize money, which translates to about 740,000 yuan, which is currently the highest prize in the world for a single literary award.
At the same time, this award is also the most widely selected award in the world, as long as it is an English novel or any language with an English translation of the novel can compete for this award.
I think that the works that we Chinese readers are more familiar with for this award should be: "De Niro's Game" and "General Theory of Forgetting".
Winners of the Dublin Literary Prize in the last five years:
Mao Dun Literature Award
To talk about the famous domestic literary awards, it is impossible to avoid the Mao Dun Literature Award, which is also an award respected by domestic writers, and the gold content is also very high.
It was established in 1981 according to the will of Mr. Mao Dun to encourage excellent novels as a creative purpose, and is selected every four years by the Chinese Writers Association, and is currently the highest literary prize in China, with a prize of up to 500,000 yuan.
The Mao Dun Literature Award has a lot of influence in China, and the writers' mood after winning the award is also their own taste.
Jia Pingwa, who won the award at the age of 53 with "Qin Cavity", did not burn gao incense first thing after winning the award;
With the extraordinary "Ordinary World" to fight out of the heavy siege of the award-winning Lu Yao, but worried about the travel expenses and book money to receive the award, and finally let his brother help raise 5,000 books to give away;
There are also the famous "accompanying king" Mo Yan and Wang Meng, who finally kept the cloud open to see the moon, and brought the Mao Dun Literature Award home with "Frog" and "Over There Scenery" respectively.
In recent years, Mao Dun Literature Award winners:
Naoki Award
The Naoki Prize and another of Japan's most famous awards, the Wasagawa Prize, were both founded in 1935 by Hiroshi Kikuchi, the founder of The Spring and Autumn of Japanese Literature.
The Naoki Prize, known as the "Naoki Thirty-Five Award", referred to as the "Naoki Prize", was established for Naoki Thirty-Five, a friend of Kikuchi Hiroshi in the Year of the Rooster, the prize is mainly for the backbone writers in the Japanese literary world, awarded twice a year, in February and August, and the winners generally only receive the award once, and we know Higashino Keigo, Miyuki Miyabe and so on have won the award.
Naoki Prize winners in recent years:
Kafka Prize for Literature
The full name of the Kafka Prize for Literature is "Franz. Kafka Prize for Literature "is in honor of the great novelist Franz. Kafka was established.
It is awarded mainly to writers with humanistic concerns, and is awarded once a year, and there are no national borders for candidates, as long as the work is translated into Czech.
The Kafka Prize for Literature is a relatively young award by Czech Franz. The Kafka Association was founded in 2001, and The Chinese writer Yan Lianke won the award in 2014, becoming the first Chinese writer in China to win the award. Rose has both received the award.
Kafka Prize winners in the past five years:
Award-winning works in the past five years
Hugo Award
When it comes to the Hugo Awards, everyone's first impression will definitely think that this is a tribute to the great French writer Victor. Hugo set up, and then muttered, when did Hugo still have contact with the field of science fiction, is he lonely?
In fact, on the contrary, the Hugo Awards were indeed set up in honor of someone, but not Victor. Hugo, but the "father of science fiction magazines" Hugo. Gensback.
Hugo Award logo
It was founded in 1953 to promote the development of science fiction, and it and another Nebula Award, together with the "Nobel Prize" and the "Oscar" in the field of fantasy, can be imagined to have gained a high status in the field of science fiction.
And it is based on the reader's favorite to determine the list of winners, although to a certain extent there is a possibility of swiping tickets, but it can also reflect the reader's recognition of the work.
China's famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin has won the award with his work "Three-Body Problem", as well as the world-famous Harry Potter series, which is also an excellent work recognized by the Hugo Award.
In 2001, JK Rowling won the award for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Hugo Award-winning works in recent years:
Lu Xun Literature Award
The Lu Xun Literature Prize was established in 1986 in honor of Mr. Lu Xun and is known as the "Four Major Literary Awards of China" along with the Lao She Literature Prize, the Mao Dun Literature Prize and the Cao Yu Drama Literature Award.
The Lu Xun Literature Prize is a relatively comprehensive award, which has specific awards for medium and long short stories, poetry, prose, and so on. It is selected every two years, and all works approved by the state for publication can participate in the selection of this award.
In recent years, the momentum of young writers is very fierce, and the awards of writers are getting younger and younger, but each work still has a relatively high ideological content. For example, Shi Yifeng won the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award for "There Is No Chen Jinfang in the World".
In recent years, Lu Xun Literature Award-winning works:
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