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Book Awards

General

The Book Trust
Administers various prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Booker Prize for fiction, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and some children's prizes.
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/

Specific

Pulitzer Prizes
The official site. The fiction prize is awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
http://www.pulitzer.org

Royal Society of Literature
Responsible for administering and awarding three literary prizes: The W.H.Heineman Award, the V.S.Pritchett Memorial Prize and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize ( this replaces the Winifred Holtby Memorial prize).
http://www.rslit.org/

The Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for fiction promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

The Orange Prize for Fiction
Official site of the Orange Prize for Fiction: to celebrate the excellence of women's writing.
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/

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