List of young adult fiction awards

Young adult fiction awards recognize outstanding works of young adult fiction.

Young adult awards

Award Title Organization Founded Description References
Alex Awards YALSA 1998 Awarded annually to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults. [1]
Andre Norton Award Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) 2006 Awarded annually for the best young adult science fiction or fantasy book published in the United States. [2]
Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature APALA 2010 Honors individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit. Awards are given in five categories including Young Adult Literature. [3]
Cybils Award (Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards) Bloggers with expertise in children's literature 2006 Given on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal in many categories, including Young Adult Novel.
Edgar Award Mystery Writers of America 1989 Given for mystery writing in about a dozen categories, including Best Young Adult Novel.
GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Global Literature in Libraries Iniatitive (GLLI) 2019 Awarded annually for the best Young Adult book translated into English. One prize and several Honor titles. [4]
Golden Kite Award Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) 2016 Given in six categories from picture books through young adult.
Lodestar Award World Science Fiction Society 2018 Awarded annually to a book published for young adult readers in the field of science fiction or fantasy. [5]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize The Los Angeles Times 1998 Given in about a dozen categories, including Young Adult Fiction.
Margaret A. Edwards Award YALSA/School Library Journal 1988 Awarded annually to recognize authors for lifetime contributions to popular young adult literature.
Michael L. Printz Award YALSA 2000 Awarded annually for excellence in young adult literature. The ALA has also put out an annual list of Best Books for Young Adults since 1930, and a Top Ten list since 1997.
William C. Morris Award YALSA 2009 Given annually to a previously unpublished author "who has made a strong literary debut in writing for young adult readers". [6]

The Canadian Library Association gave a young adult book award for Canadian books from 1981 until the group's disbandment in 2016.[7]

Children's/young adult awards

These awards are granted to either a children's or a young adult book.

Award Title Organization Founded Description References
Coretta Scott King Award Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table/ALA 1970 Awarded annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. [8]
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award The Boston Globe/The Horn Book Magazine 1967 Given annually in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The latter two awards may be either children’s or young adult works.
National Book Award National Book Foundation 1996 National Book Awards are given in five categories, one of them Young People's Literature.
Odyssey Award YALSA/ALSC 2008 Honors the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States. [9]
Pura Belpré Award YALSA/ALSC 1996 Awarded to a Latino or Latina author and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for children or youth. [10]
Stonewall Book Award Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table/ALA 2010 Awards books that have exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQ experience. One of the three awards granted is for children's and YA literature. [11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Alex Awards". American Library Association. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
  2. ^ "New Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction". SF/F & Publishing News. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. February 20, 2005. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  3. ^ "Literature Award Guidelines and Nominations". (APALA) Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  4. ^ The GLLI Translated YA Book Prize. https://glli-us.org/prizes/ Retrieved 29 Sept 2024
  5. ^ "Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society, as of August 21, 2018" (PDF). The World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  6. ^ Shannon Maughan (June 29, 2007). "New ALA Award Honors Bill Morris". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on July 4, 2007.
  7. ^ Canadian Library Association. "CLA Young Adult Book Award". Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  8. ^ "The Coretta Scott King Book Awards". American Library Association. January 18, 2009.
  9. ^ "Odyssey Award". American Library Association. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
  10. ^ "Pura Belpré Award Award". American Library Association. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  11. ^ "Stonewall Book Awards". American Library Association. Retrieved August 2, 2018.