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Top 10 most prestigious literary awards

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In the literary world, a wide variety of prizes are awarded: in the field of poetry and prose, drama and science fiction, lyrics and a detective story. However, not every prize testifies to the quality of the literature that was awarded.

Recognized awards are collected in our Top 10 most prestigious literary awards. Among the laureates of these prizes, you can safely choose books worth reading.

10. Liberty Award

The prize was established in the USA by emigrants from Russia in 1999. She is awarded for her contribution to the development of Russian-American culture and the strengthening of international relations between countries. The winners were V. Aksenov, M. Epstein, V. Bachanyan, O. Vasiliev.

9. Prize H.K. Andersen

This prize is awarded in the field of children's literature, both for the works themselves and for illustrations to them. The winners were Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson, Gianni Rodari.

8. Book Runet Award

The annual literature award is presented to laureates selected both by popular vote and by an expert commission. The winners of the 2013 Runet Book Prize have already been named on the pages of Basetop.

7. Russian Booker

This prize is awarded for the best novel in Russian. The winners of the Russian Booker were Bulat Okudzhava, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Vasily Aksenov. Along with the main prize, the Student Booker is also awarded, the jury of which includes students and graduate students.

6. Southeast Asia Literary Prize

This international literary prize is awarded for the best poetic and prose works of authors of ASEAN countries. The chairman of the organizing committee of the award is the Prince of Thailand Prem Puratchatra.

5. ABS premium

The Prize named after Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is awarded for the best works in science fiction, written in Russian. Prize winners are Evgeny Lukin, Kir Bulychev, Dmitry Bykov.

4. Booker Prize

This award is for many the most prestigious in the world of English-language literature. The winner is presented with a check in the amount of 50,000 British pounds. Four times in history, Booker laureates also received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

3. Goncourt Prize

The French Literary Prize has been awarded annually since 1903. According to the charter, a prize can be awarded to any author only once in a lifetime. Over the years, the Goncourt Prize was awarded to Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, Alfonso de Chateaubriand.

2. Pulitzer Prize

This American Prize has been awarded since 1911. The size of the main prize is 10 thousand US dollars. Despite the fact that the laureates almost never get on the lists of book bestsellers, the prize is considered one of the most prestigious in the literary world.

1. Nobel Prize in Literature

This prestigious award is awarded annually for achievements in the field of literature. Mostly, writers from Europe and the USA become laureates, therefore the prize is often criticized for bias. Among Russian authors, the Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize in literature.

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