Non-Fiction Literary Awards

Companion prize celebrating excellence in non-fiction writing by women.

Prize: £30,000

Launched to fill the gap left by Costa, celebrating the best reads of the year by UK and Ireland-based writers.

Prize: £15,000

Known as the "Nibbies", these awards recognize literary quality and commercial success, plus the industry behind bringing books to readers.

The most prestigious non-fiction prize in the UK, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Prize: £50,000

Prizes for political writing that comes closest to George Orwell's ambition to make political writing into an art.

Prize: £3,000

Pulitzer Prize for distinguished non-fiction by an American author.

Prize: $15,000

National Book Award recognizing the best non-fiction of the year.

Prize: $10,000