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Children's and young-adult literature awards

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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is an international prize established by the Swedish government in 2002 for children's and young adult literature, worth five million Swedish kronor.

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Award is an annual American literary prize for children's and young adult literature, presented since 1967 by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine.

Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards

The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, established in 1946, honor Australian children's books of literary merit in categories from early childhood to older readers.

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) is a state-funded German prize for children's and young adult literature, awarded annually since 1956 with a total endowment of 72,000 euros.

Michael L. Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual prize given by YALSA, a division of the American Library Association, to the young adult book that best exemplifies literary excellence.

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is an annual prize given by the National Book Foundation to the best book for young readers published in the United States.

Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal, also called the John Newbery Medal, is an annual American award since 1922 for the most distinguished work of children's literature by a US author.

Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize

The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize is an annual Nordic literary award, established in 2012, for children's and young people's fiction written in a Nordic language.

Prix Sorcières

The Prix Sorcières is a French literary prize for children's and young adult books, awarded each year since 1986 by a jury of children's booksellers and librarians.

Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature

The Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (Sanlamprys vir Jeuglektuur) is a biennial South African prize, sponsored by Sanlam since 1980, for unpublished youth novels in Afrikaans, English, and African languages.