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literary award

vr.tr.literary-award · ACT.ACT

Let an agent describe literary awards as a category, identify kinds and notable examples, relay rules, winners and histories from official sources, and present debates about awards with attribution.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent describe literary awards as a category, identify kinds and notable examples, relay rules, winners and histories from official sources, and present debates about awards with attribution.

A prize given for achievement in literature, whether for a single work, a body of work or a career, awarded by academies, foundations, publishers, cities, festivals or governments, from the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize to national, regional and genre awards such as travel writing prizes and municipal awards; literary awards confer recognition, money and sales, and are governed by rules on eligibility, juries and nomination.

What it is for: Recognising literary achievement.

It can be explain the category and its kinds; relay rules and winners from official sources; identify notable awards; present debates with attribution.

Distinguishing features

Jury or panel selection

Eligibility rules

Recognition and commercial effect

Wide range of scale

What it looks like

Not a physical object; a prize with a ceremony, certificate, medal or trophy and often a cash sum.

How it is recognised

Prize for literary achievement

By work, body of work or career; by genre, language or region

Grants and fellowships fund work; bestseller lists rank sales

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

award

is a kind of - in registry terms

planned event

recognises - the field

literature

is awarded by - or a panel

jury

In practice

Families and kinds

international awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature

national and language awards

genre awards such as travel writing and poetry prizes

awards for a best book or debut

municipal and festival awards such as the City of Valencia Award and the Off Flip prize

lectureships and honours as related recognitions

Identifiers

award name and year per award

Standards and regulation

Rules of each award on eligibility, nomination and jury conduct

Tax rules on prize money

Sponsorship and conflict of interest policies

Failure modes and hazards

Stale winner lists

Confusing awards with similar names

Controversies over juries and eligibility

Also called

City of Valencia AwardPoetics lectureshipEdward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsCarla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prizeaward for best bookPrêmio Off Flip de LiteraturaSveriges Radio's Short Story PrizeLetteraria Prizenon-fiction literary awardscience fiction awardspeculative fiction awardlight novel awardChristian-Wagner-PreisNew Media Writing PrizeIgnyte Awardscrime fiction awardCastilla and León critics awardDomprijs voor poëzieUPC AwardAnnie Romein prizeFintro LiteratuurprijsGerman literary awardEuropean Union Prize for LiteratureDaybreak Press Book AwardCosta Book AwardsAmrit Kumbh Sammanlocal literary awardLos Angeles Times Book PrizePessoa Prizenovel awardPremi Documenta de narrativaThe VIVIANPulitzer Prize for Memoir or AutobiographyPremis Literaris Ciutat d’OlotKoronatsiya SlovaPremio Caonabo de OroAntón Losada Diéguez AwardPro LiteraturaDrs. P. TrofeeGreek State Literary Awards

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Identify What award this is.

Identity.

Kind

Kind and scope.

Kind

Kind.

  1. What kind of literary award is it, and what does it recognise? definition
  2. Is the recognition an award, a grant or a lectureship? boundary

Rules

Rules.

Rules

Rules.

  1. What are the eligibility, nomination and jury rules, from the award organiser? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific award? action
Records Winners and history.

Sources.

Winners

Winners.

Winners

Winners.

  1. Who has won a given award, from official sources? provenance
  2. Is the information current? boundary

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the award develop, and how did literary awards grow as an institution? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Effects Effects and debate.

Attribution.

Effects

Effects on authors and sales.

Effects

Effects.

  1. What do studies report about the effects of awards on sales, careers and canons, with findings attributed? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Debates

Debates.

Debates

Debates.

  1. What debates exist about jury choices, diversity and sponsorship, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Landscape.

Context.

Landscape

Awards by region and genre.

Landscape

Landscape.

  1. Which awards are notable in a given country, language or genre? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific region or genre? action

Organisers

Organisers.

Organisers

Organisers.

  1. Who organises and funds literary awards, and how? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the organising body? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each award be a separate entry?
  • How should official award sites be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific awards; should they be split off?
Draft as JSON