World Literary Awards

Nonfiction and Documentary Literature Calendar

Schedules of literary awards in Nonfiction and Documentary Literature

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Cundill History Prize
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award
Anthony Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History
Goldsmith Book Prize
William E. Colby Military Writers' Award
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
Bancroft Prize
Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
William Hill Sports Book of the Year
British Sports Book Awards
Orwell Prize
Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Alan Paton Award (Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards — Non-fiction)
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Prix Renaudot (Prix Théophraste-Renaudot)
PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Rabindra Puraskar
Gotham Book Prize
Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
Innis-Gérin Medal
Schiller Memorial Prize
Wolfson History Prize
Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal (Seymour Medal)

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