List of Literary National & International Awards Recipients

INTERNATIONAL Literature AWARDS/Prizes

International Booker Award:

The International Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award in the UK recognizing the year's best work of translated fiction from across the world into English. Previously known as the Man Booker International Prize since 2005, its rebranding in 2019 reinforces global diversity in compelling storytelling.

Administered by the Booker Prize Foundation, it is awarded annually for a single translated work of fiction and awards £50,000 split evenly between author and translator providing global visibility through the prize’s legacy and events. Entries represent world literature across cultures like Korean, Spanish, French, Polish, German, Hebrew etc from diverse internationally acclaimed writers. Judges evaluate submissions on criteria spanning literary merit, readability in English, contribution to global reading culture beyond just commercial success. An illustrious cohort of multicultural awardees has included literary giants like Milan Kundera, Philip Roth, Alice Munroe, Ismail Kadare, Lydia Davis and Olga Tokarczuk with 2022 winner Geetanjali Shree making history as the first Hindi language work to win.

2023 International Booker Prize Winner

Georg' Gospodinov (Bulgarian writer) and translator Angela Rodel for Time Shelter, a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia.

International Pulitzer Award:

The Pulitzer Award is one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, literature and music in the United States. While most Pulitzer categories focus on works by Americans, the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting stands out by recognizing excellence in foreign journalism.

This was established in 1942, it is awarded annually to U.S. newspaper journalists that show exemplary, courageous coverage of news of global significance. This requires foreign reporting often under challenging conditions. Recipients include journalists reporting on major world events from global conflicts, political crises, and human rights issues across Africa, Asia, South America etc bringing these stories to the American public. Some recent International Reporting prize winning coverage includes Reuters work around atrocities faced by Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Associated Press coverage of China's mass detention camps for Uighur Muslims etc.

The award includes a certificate bearing a gold medal symbolizing the highest journalistic achievement in U.S. as well as a prize amount currently standing at $15,000.

2023 Pulitzer Award Winners: Books, Drama & Music Field

Drama: English (Sanaz Toossi);

Poetry: Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Carl Phillips);

Music: Omar (Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels).

Biography: G-Man: Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Beverly Gage);

Fiction: Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver);

Fiction: Trust (Hernan Diaz);

History: Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Jefferson. Cowie);

Memoir or Autobiography: Stay True (Hua Hsu);

General Nonfiction: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa) (Moved by the Board from the Biography category.);

The Windham-Campbell Prizes

(Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, part of the Yale University Library, the prizes an awarded each year to eight writers working in English anywhere in tho world for literary achievement across four categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Each recipient receives $175,000).

2023 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners

Fiction: Percival Everett (United States) and Ling Ma (United States);

Non-fiction: Susan Williams (United Kingdom) and Darran Anderson (Ireland/United Kingdom); Drama: Dominique Marisseau (United States) and Jasmine Lee-Jones (United Kingdom);

Poetry: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (United States) and dg nanouk okpik (Inupiaq-Inuit).

PEN Pinter Prize

The PEN Pinter Prize was established in 2009 in memory of playwright Harold Pinter by the English PEN organization. It is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in Britain (UK).

In the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world and shows a “fierce intellectual determination to define the real truth of our lives and our societies.” The prize includes an award amount of £3000 awarded to a single writer, poet, playwright etc of any nationality that is resident in the United Kingdom.

PEN Pinter Prize Winner

2009 – Tony Harrison, 2010 – David Hare, 2011 – Hanif Kureishi, 2014 – Tom Stoppard , 2015 – James Fenton , 2016 – Margaret Atwood , 2017 – Michael Longley , 2018 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , 2019 – Fiona Shaw , 2020 – Tsitsi Dangarembga , 2021 – Nancy Fraser , 2022 – Asma Barlas,

2023 – Michael Rosen

Pen/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature:

Instituted in 2015 by PEN America, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature serves as a prestigious lifetime achievement honor presented annually recognizing towering figures within international literature. The award was established drawing inspiration from Vladimir Nabokov - an iconic Russian-American novelist celebrated for works spanning themes like exile, loss of homeland, cultural identity and more through an outstanding body of English and Russian fiction over a 5 decade career. A specially appointed jury of literary experts selects international writers who have produced stellar literary output which combines intellectual prowess, stylistic mastery and enduring cultural influence beyond a single language or nation.

The winner delivers a public lecture followed by an award ceremony and receives prize money alongside a commemorative plaque. Previous laureates since its inception include eminent names like Adonis, Nuruddin Farah, Yan Lianke and Marie NDiaye among others.

PEN/Nabokov award continues to benchmark the highest values of global literature annually through recognizing leading virtuosos within international fiction and cultural discourse.

2023 PAN/Nabokov Award Winner

Vinod Kumar Shukla awarded with $50,000.

National Literature Awards

Saraswati Samman

Saraswati Samman is one of India’s highest literary honors annually conferred to outstanding literary works produced by Indian citizens in Hindi or any other Indian language listed in Schedule 8 of the Constitution.

It was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation, it recognizes works across genres like poetry, novels, short stories essays, plays etc. It carries a cash prize of Rs 15 lakh and a citation. The award is given every year for works published during the preceding 10 years in a particular language.

Saraswati Samman has recognized many leading Indian literary talents writing in regional languages over the last three decades for their stellar contributions enriching India's literary heritage.

2022 Saraswati Samman Winner

Tamil writer Sivasankari for her 2019 memoir Surya Vamsam.

Vyas Samman

Vyas Samman is a prestigious literary award in India, conferred annually by the K.K. Birla Foundation since 1991. It is given for outstanding literary achievements in Hindi across all forms of literary writing like poetry, novels, short stories, drama, essays etc. It is named after one of the most eminent Hindi writers Maharshi Valmiki, the author of the epic Ramayana.

This Award carries award money of 4 lakh rupees, a citation plaque and an engraved copper-plate for the awardee.

2022 Vyas Samman Winner

Gyan Chaturvedi: for his novel Pagalkhana, a 2018 satirical novel by renowned Hindi author Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi