List of richest literary awards

Many literary awards give significant remunerations. This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least or equivalent. Although global in scope and comprising over 35 awards, most of the prizes are in only four currencies: United Arab Emirates dirham, Swedish krona, Euro, and United States dollar.

Inclusion criteria

The award is active and is primarily focused on writing
The remuneration is equal to or greater than US$100,000 or equivalent. Because fluctuating exchange rates move non-US dollar denominated awards in and out of the list over time, awards near this amount are also included.
The award is for any genre of writing or award type.
The listed remuneration is for a single winner or co-winners. The list does not aggregate the total value of runners-up and other prizes within the same award. For example, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards is listed as A$100,000 even though it is composed of four prizes totalling A$400,000.

The following awards have a superlative claim within certain defined categories, as described and sourced in the Notes column.

Equivalent in US$	Amount	Name	Type	Host country	Primary language	Claim
524,527		Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award	Children's literature	Sweden	Any	The richest children's literature prize in the world.
138,180		RBA Prize for Crime Writing	Crime fiction	Spain	Any	"The world's most lucrative crime fiction prize."
75,000		Cundill History Prize	Non-fiction and history	Canada	English	"the largest purse for a book of non-fiction published in English"
55,270		Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero	Short story collection	Spain	Spanish	"the largest in the world for a competition of this kind".
39,358		Sunday Times Short Story Award	Short story	United Kingdom	English	"The world's richest short story prize".
38,081		Montreal International Poetry Prize	Poetry	Canada	Any	Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem.