The Grand Prix of Literary Associations (GPLA) began in 2013 in Cameroon. It was created with the help of Brasseries du Cameroun and supported by Castel Beer. The GPLA are literary awards given in both English and French.
The KONS International Literary Award is given to poets and writers who create literature that helps improve social justice. These writers dedicate their lives to making positive changes in society. The award was created in 2011 by three female poets from Slovenia: Taja Kramberger, Tatjana Jamnik, and Barbara Korun.
The Paris Literary Prize was a literary award given every two years for unpublished novellas written by new authors from around the world. It was started in 2010 by the Paris-based bookstore Shakespeare and Company, and it was supported by the de Groot Foundation. The prize, worth €10,000, was given to authors who had never published a book before.
The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) was created in 2009. It is a literary award given by the European Union. The goal of the prize is to acknowledge talented new writers from across Europe.
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an annual award in the United States that honors the power of writing to help people understand and support peace. It began in 2006. Each year, the prize is given to adult books in fiction and nonfiction categories that were published within the past year.
The Ovid Prize was a literary award given each year from 2002 to 2011 by the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Romanian Writers’ Union. It honored an author from any country for their collection of writing. The prize was named after the Roman poet Ovid, who died in exile in Tomis, a former Greek colony on the Black Sea (now called Constanța in Romania).
The Franz Kafka Prize was an international literary award given in honor of Franz Kafka, a Jewish writer from Bohemia who wrote in German. The prize was first given in 2001 and was supported together by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague in the Czech Republic.
The Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award is a European literary award given in Budapest since 1997. Its original name is Balassi Bálint-emlékkard. This award honors the 16th century Hungarian poet Bálint Balassi.
The America Award is a literary honor given to international writers for their lifetime achievements. It aims to offer an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature. The award was first given in 1994.
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, originally called the Diagram Group Prize for the Oddest Title and often referred to as the Diagram Prize, is a funny book award given every year to a book with an unusual title. The prize is named after the Diagram Group, a company in London that makes information and graphics, and The Bookseller, a British magazine for people in the publishing industry. The award was first created in 1978 to entertain visitors at the Frankfurt Book Fair.