The Kiriyama Prize was an international literary award given to books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. Its purpose was to help people learn more about each other in the region. Created in 1996, the prize was last given in 2008.
The SAARC Literary Award is given every year by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001. Some people who have received this award include Shamshur Rahman, Mahasweta Devi, Jayanta Mahapatra, Abhi Subedi, Mark Tully, Sitakant Mahapatra, Nayyara Rahman, Uday Prakash, Suman Pokhrel, and Abhay K. Suman Pokhrel, a Nepali poet, lyricist, and translator, is the only person to have won this award twice.
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international award given each year to writers of any background who write about South Asia. Topics include culture, politics, history, and people. The prize is for an original complete novel written in English or translated into English.
The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award given from 2007 to 2012. It honored the best novel written by an Asian author, either in English or translated into English, and published in the previous year. The prize was open to writers who were citizens or residents of 34 Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, The Maldives, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa was a writing award given every two years to the best literary work created by an African author. The prize, worth $20,000, was started in 2005 and managed by the Lumina Foundation. It was named after Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Tchicaya U Tam’si Prize for African Poetry was created in 1989 to honor a writer who creates poetry that is new and of high artistic quality. The prize is named after Tchicaya U Tam’si, a Congolese writer who lived from 1931 to 1988. The prize was started during the Assilah Forum in Morocco.
The Nommo Awards are literary honors given by The African Speculative Fiction Society. These awards celebrate works of speculative fiction written by Africans. Speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, stories about magic and traditional beliefs, alternative histories, horror, and other imaginative stories that may not fit into other categories.
The Grand prix Afrique, previously called the Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire (a major literary prize for Francophone literature in Black Africa), is an award given each year by the ADELF, the Association of French Language Writers. The prize is awarded for a French original text written by someone from Sub-Saharan Africa. It was originally given with a prize of 2,000 French francs.
The Golden Baobab Prize (formerly called The Baobab Prize) is given every year to African writers who create books for children and young adults. The prize accepts short stories that have not been published before. These stories must be written by African citizens, regardless of their age, race, or where they live.
The 9mobile Prize for Literature was created by Etisalat Nigeria in 2013. It was the first prize in Africa for a first-time novel or short story collection. The prize is given every year to find new writers and help the publishing industry in Africa grow.