List of the world's richest literary prizes

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Announcement of the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's richest literary prize, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm (2008)

Many literary awards attract a significant remuneration as part of their prize. This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with remunerations valued at least US$100,000, or equivalent.

Inclusion criteria

  • The award is active and is primarily focused on writing and the arts.
  • The remuneration is equal to or greater than US$100,000 or equivalent. Because fluctuating exchange rates move non-US dollar denominated awards in and out of the list over time, awards near this amount are also included.
  • The award is for any genre of writing (fiction, journalism, etc.) or award type (book or author).
  • The listed remuneration is for a single winner or co-winners. The list does not aggregate the total value of runners-up and other prizes within the same award. For example, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards is listed as A$100,000 even though it is composed of four prizes totaling A$400,000.

Prizes

Equivalent in US$
(April 2016)		 Prize amount Prize name Type Host country Primary language Notes Ref(s)
1,361,000 AD5,000,000 Million's Poet N/A UAE Arabic Award for a single poem. Total prizes for 2nd to 5th positions are $2,723,000 [1]
990,000 kr 8,000,000 Nobel Prize for Literature Author Sweden Any There are five Nobel Prizes of 8 million kronor each. Reduced in 2012 from 10 million. [2][3]
680,000 €601,000 Premio Planeta de Novela (winner) Book Spain Spanish See also runner-up of same prize. [4]
618,000 kr 5,000,000 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Author Sweden Any [5]
307,000 kr 2,500,000 International Ibsen Award Author* Norway Any Any drama and theater position eligible, not just writers. [6]
300,000 US$300,000 The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Author* United States English Open to all arts not just writers. [7]
260,000 US$260,000 Katara Prize for Arabic Novel Book Qatar Arabic Plus 4 winners of $60,000 and 5 of $30,000. Total prize pool is $650,000 [8]
250,000 US$250,000 Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language Author Mexico Spanish [9]
226,000 €200,000 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca Author France Any
212,000 AD777,777 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Book United Arab Emirates Arabic 9 awards for a total of AD7,000,000 [10]
200,000 US$200,000 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation Author Saudi Arabia Arabic 5 awards of 200,000 each (1 million total) [11]
175,000 US$175,000 Alfaguara Prize Book Spain Spanish [12]
170,000 €150,000 Premio Planeta de Novela (runner-up) Book Spain Spanish See also winner of same prize. [4]
153,000 kr 1,000,000 Sonning Prize Author* Denmark Any Open to all arts not just writers. [13]
150,000 US$150,000 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes Book United States English Composed of seven to nine awards of $150,000 each. [14][15]
150,000 US$150,000 Lannan Literary Awards Author United States English Composed of three awards of $150,000 each. Prize amount last verified for 2007. [16]
150,000 US$150,000 FIL Literature Award Author Mexico Spanish [17]
142,000 €125,000 Miguel de Cervantes Prize Author Spain Spanish [18]
142,000 €125,000 RBA International Prize for Crime Writing Book Spain Any [19]
136,000 €120,000 Premio de Novela Fernando Lara Book Spain Spanish [20]
114,000 €100,000 Rómulo Gallegos Prize Book Venezuela Spanish [21]
114,000 €100,000 Premio Primavera de Novela Book Spain Spanish [22]
114,000 €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Book Ireland English [23]
114,000 €100,000 Premio Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio Book Spain Spanish [24]
114,000 €100,000 Camões Prize Author Portugal
Brazil		 Portuguese [25]
114,000 €100,000 Prémio Leya Book Portugal Portuguese [26][27][28]
100,000 US$100,000 Premio de Traducción Literaria Tomás Segovia Author Mexico Spanish Translator award [29]
100,000 US$100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Nigeria English [30][31]
100,000 US$100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Author United States English [32]
100,000 US$100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Author United States English [33][34]
100,000 US$100,000 Wallace Stevens Award Author United States English [35]
100,000 US$100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Book United States English [36]
100,000 US$100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Author United States English [37]
100,000 US$100,000 Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Awards Author United Arab Emirates Arabic Composed of five awards of $100,000 each. [38]
100,000 US$100,000 Park Kyong-ni Prize Author South Korea Any [39]
95,000 A$125,000 Victorian Prize for Literature Book Australia English $25,000 winner in each category + $100,000 for overall winner. [40]
93,000 ¥10,000,000 Yokomizo Seishi Prize Book Japan Japanese [41]
76,000 kr 500,000 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award Author Denmark Any [42][43]
75,000 US$75,000 Cundill Prize Book Canada English [44]
73,000 GB£50,000 Man Booker International Prize Book England English [45]
Key
  • Columns are sortable (click small square)
  • Author*: Award is not literary-specific but has some literary winners.
  • This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

The following awards have a superlative claim within certain defined categories, as described and sourced in the Notes column.

Equivalent in US$
(April 2016)		 Prize amount Prize name Type Host country Primary language Claim
617,000 kr 5,000,000 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Children's literature Sweden Any The richest children's literature prize in the world.[46]
141,000 €125,000 RBA International Prize for Crime Writing Crime fiction Spain Any "The world's most lucrative crime fiction prize." [19]
40,000 CA$50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize Poetry Canada Any Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem.[47]
44,000 GB£30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award Short story United Kingdom English "The world's richest short story prize" (single short story).[48]
57,000 €50,000 Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero Short story collection Spain Spanish "the largest in the world for a competition of this kind".[49]

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