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National Jewish Book Awards

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Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry

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Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Prose

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Nebula Award

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Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize

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Nestlé Children's Book Prize

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New York City Book Awards

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Newbery Medal

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Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize

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Nobel Prize in Literature

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Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction

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Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award

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Ondaatje Prize

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Orange Prize for Fiction

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Oregon Book Award for Fiction (Ken Kesey Award)

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Oregon Literary Nonfiction Award (Frances Fuller Victor and Sarah Winnemucca Awards)

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Orwell Prize

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Ottawa Book Awards English Fiction Category

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Ottawa Book Awards English Non-Fiction Category

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Otto Kinkeldey Award

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Pat Lowther Award

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Patrick White Award

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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction

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Philip K. Dick Award

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Philip Schaff Prize

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Philip Taft Labor History Book Award

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Phoenix Award for Children's Literature

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Prince of Asturias Award for Letters

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Prometheus Best Novel Award

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Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

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Pulitzer Prize for History

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

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Ralph Bunche Award

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

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Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

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Rea Award

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Red House Children's Book Award

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Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction

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René Wellek Prize

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Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

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Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award

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Robert Motherwell Book Award

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Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

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Romantic Novel of the Year Award

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Rossica Translation Prize

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Royal Society (Aventis) Junior Prize for Science Books

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Royal Society (Aventis) Prize for Science Books

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Ruth Benedict Prize

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Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

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Sagittarius Prize

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Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize

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Sally Hacker Prize

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Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

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Samuel Johnson Prize

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Samuel Pepys Award

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Saskatchewan Book Of The Year Award

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Saskatchewan Children's Literature Award

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Saskatchewan Fiction Award

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Saskatchewan First Book Award

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Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Award

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Saskatchewan Poetry Award

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Saskatchewan Scholarly Writing Award

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Saul Viener Book Prize

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Scotiabank Giller Prize

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Scott Moncrieff Prize

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Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

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Scottish Book of the Year

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Scottish First Book of the Year

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Scribes Book Award

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Scripter Award

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Sequoyah Children's Award

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Sequoyah Young Adult

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Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing

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Sidewise Award for Alternate History

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Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award

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Somerset Maugham Awards

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Sophie Brody Medal

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Spitz Prize

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SSSR Distinguished Book Award

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Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

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Stonewall Book Awards

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Story Prize

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Strauss Living Award

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Sydney Taylor Book Award

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T. S. Eliot Prize

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Tankard Book Award

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Theatre Book Prize

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Theatre Library Association Award

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Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

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Thomas Head Radall Atlantic Fiction Award

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Thurber Prize for American Humor

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Toronto Book Awards

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TR Fyvel Book Award

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Trillium Award

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Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

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Vicky Metcalf Award

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Victoria Schuck Award

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Vondel Prize

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W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize

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Wales Book of the Year Award

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Wallace Stevens Award

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Walt Whitman Award

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Walter P. Kistler Book Award

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Warren-Brooks Award

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Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize

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Wellcome Trust Book Prize

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WH Smith Literary Award

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Whitfield Book Prize

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Will Eisner Best Comics-Related Book

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Will Eisner Best U.S. Edition of International Material

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Willard Hurst Prize

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William Dean Howells Medal

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William Hill Sports Book of the Year

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Wingate Literary Prize

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Wolfson History Prize

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Wolfson Oeuvre Prize

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Woody Guthrie Award

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World Fantasy Award for Novel

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AAG Globe Book Award

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AAG Meridian Book Award

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Abraham Pais Prize

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Age Fiction Award

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Age Non-fiction Award

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AHS Book Award

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Alan Merriam Prize

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Alan Paton Award

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Albert C. Outler Prize

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Albert J. Beveridge Award

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Alex Awards

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Ambassador Book Award in American Studies

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Ambassador Book Award in Fiction

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Ambassador Book Award in Poetry

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American Book Awards

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Andre Norton Award

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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature

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APA Book Prize

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APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry

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Arab American Book Award

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Arthur C. Clarke Award

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Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award

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Arthur Ellis Best Juvenile Crime Award

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Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Award

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Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award

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Arthur Ross Book Award

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ASA Distinguished Book Award

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ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards

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Asian American Literary Award

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Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

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August Derleth Award

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Bad Sex in Fiction Award

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Bancroft Prize

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Bard Fiction Prize

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BCALA Fiction Award

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BCALA First Novelist Award

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BCALA Non-Fiction Award

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BCALA Outstanding Contribution Citation

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Bellwether Prize

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Best Book Award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

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Best Book in Non-North American Urban History

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Best Translated Book Award

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Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature

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Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

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Boeke Prize

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Bollingen Prize for Poetry

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Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

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Bookseller Diagram Prize

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Booktrust Teenage Prize

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Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry

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Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction

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Boston Globe-Horn Picture Book Award

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Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement

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Branford Boase Award

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Brittingham Prize in Poetry

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Caldecott Medal

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Carnegie Medal

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Casey Award

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CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography

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Cervantes Prize

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Charles C. Eldredge Prize

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Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

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Charles Taylor Prize

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Cheltenham Prize for Literature

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Chicago Folklore Prize

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Christian Gauss Award

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City of Regina Book Award

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City of Saskatoon Award

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Coif Book Award

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Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Prize

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Commonwealth Writers' Best First Book Prize

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Compton Crook Award

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Coretta Scott King Book Award

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Corneliu M Popescu Prize

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Costa (Whitebread) Biography Award

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Costa (Whitebread) Book of the Year

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Costa (Whitebread) Children's Book Award

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Costa (Whitebread) First Novel Award

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Costa (Whitebread) Novel Award

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Costa (Whitebread) Poetry Award

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Dave Moore Award

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David Cohen Prize

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Deutscher Memorial Prize

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Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize

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Drue Heinz Literature Prize

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Dunning Prize

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Edelstein Prize

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Edgar Allan Poe Best Fact Crime Award

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Edgar Allan Poe Best Novel Award

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Edna Staebler Award

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Eileen Basker Memorial Prize

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Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award

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Elizabeth Longford Prize

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Eric Hoffer Award for Art Books

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European Publishers Award for Photography

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Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award

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Ezra Jack Keats Book Award

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Ferro-Grumley Awards

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Art and Photography

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Fiction

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Graphic Novels

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Kids

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Music

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Non-Fiction

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Poetry

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Firecracker Alternative Book Awards for Politics

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Forward Best Collection Poetry Prize

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Francis Parkman Prize

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Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

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Frederic G. Melcher Book Award

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Frederick Douglass Book Prize

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Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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George Freedley Memorial Award

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George Perkins Marsh Prize

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George Wittenborn Award

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Gladstone Book Prize

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Gladys M. Kammerer Award

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Goethe Prize

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Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction

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Golden Pen Award

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Governor General Children's Illustration

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Governor General Children's Literature

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Governor General Drama

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Governor General Fiction

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Governor General Non-Fiction

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Governor General Poetry

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Grant MacEwan Author's Award

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Griffin Poetry Prize

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Guardian Award

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Guardian First Book Award

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Gustaf Meyers Outstanding Book Award

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H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction

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Harold Adams Innis Prize

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Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

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Harry Levin Prize

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Hawthornden Prize

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Helen Bernstein Book Award

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Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

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Herbert A. Simon Book Award

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Herbert Jacob Book Prize

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Herbert Warren Wind Book Award

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Herskovits Award

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Hessell-Tiltman History Prize

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Hugo Award

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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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Irving Lowens Memorial Book Award

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J. R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Autobiography

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Jacques Barzun Prize

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James Fenimore Cooper Prize

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James Laughlin Award

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James S. Donnelly Prize

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

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Jane Addams Children's Book Awards (for older children)

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Jane Addams Children's Book Awards (for younger children)

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Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

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Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize

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Jerusalem Prize

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Joan Kelly Memorial Prize

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Joe A. Callaway Prize

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John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

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John Burroughs Medal

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John Florio Prize

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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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John W. Campbell Memorial Award

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Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards

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Josette Frank Award

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Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

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Kate Greenaway Medal

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

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Kenneth Jackson Award

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

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Kiriyama Prize

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Koret Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, and Literary Studies

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Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction

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Koret Jewish Book Award for History

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Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought

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Kovács Book Award

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Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards

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Kurt Weill Book Prize

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Lakatos Award in Philosophy of Science

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Lambda Literary Awards

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Lampman-Scott Award

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Langston Hughes Medal

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Langum Prize for Legal History

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Lannon Literary Fiction Awards

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Lannon Literary Nonfiction Awards

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Lannon Literary Poetry Awards

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Leeds Award in Urban Anthropology

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Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

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Lettre Ulysses Award

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Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

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Lewis Lockwood Award

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Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

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Lincoln Prize

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Lionel Gelber Prize

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Los Angeles Times Biography Prize

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Los Angeles Times Current Interest Book Prize

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Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize

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Los Angeles Times History Book Prize

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Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize

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Los Angeles Times Poetry Prize

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Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award

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Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Book Prize

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Ludwik Fleck Prize

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Man Booker International Prize

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Man Booker Prize

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Marian Engel Award

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Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

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Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

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Matt Cohen Prize

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McKitterick Prize

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Melville J. Herskovits Award

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Merle Curti Award

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Michael Harrington Award

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Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture

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Michael L. Printz Award

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Mildred L. Batchelder Award

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Miles Franklin Award

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MLA Prize for a First Book

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Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry

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Montana Medal for Non-Fiction

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Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

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NASSS Outstanding Book Award

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National Book Award for Fiction