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Australian Awards

• Miles Franklin Literary Award
• Prime Minister's Literary Awards
• The Walkley Book Awards
  The Walkley Foundation celebrates and encourages great Australian journalism and writing which tells the stories of our nation and strengthens our democracy.

• The Ned Kelly Award 
• The Readings Book Prize
• Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 
• The Stella Prize

Childrens Awards

• The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year
• The Nan Chauncy Award
• The Inky Awards
  Annual literary prize for the best new Young Adult books as voted for by teen readers.
• The Readings Children’s Book Prize

• West Australian Young Readers Book Awards
• Wilderness Society Environment Awards
• YABBA Awards
  The Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) were established in 1985 by a group of Victorians keen to see children engage in reading Australian books. 

International Awards

• Man Booker Prize
• Costa Book Awards
  The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland 
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Pulitzer Prize

• Bailey's Women's Prize
• Whitley Awards
• Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction
• The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
• NZ Children's Book Awards