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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: African literary awards, Asian literary awards, Caribbean literary awards, Commonwealth literary awards, European literary awards, International literary awards, Latin American literary awards, Nordic literary awards, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, List of overall and regional winning authors of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Prince of Asturias Awards, Nordic Council's Literature Prize, Betty Trask Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Caine Prize, S.E.A. Write Award, Man Asian Literary Prize, Guardian First Book Award, Dobloug Prize, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Man Booker International Prize, Grand prix litt raire d'Afrique noire, Ovid Prize, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Kiriyama Prize, Prix litt raire des Cara bes, Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Commonwealth Short Story Competition, The Golden Baobab Prize, Aristeion Prize, Premio Alfaguara de Novela, European Union Prize for Literature, Jerusalem Prize, David Higham Prize for Fiction, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de Am rica de Narrativa, European Book Prize, Franz Kafka Prize, Juan Rulfo Prize, Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, International Botev Prize, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Ondaatje Prize, Australia-Asia Literary Award, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, The Paris Literary Prize, Casa de las Am ricas Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Excerpt: Since 1901, the Nobel Prize for Literature (Swedish: ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utm rktast...