Literary Award Winners 2008

22 winning results across 21 literary prizes in the catalogue for 2008. Years follow each prize’s official award cycle: the NBCC uses the books’ eligibility year, while its ceremony takes place the following year. Author prizes are labelled separately.

Prizes represented: The Booker Prize; Hugo Award for Best Novel; National Book Award for Fiction; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Nobel Prize in Literature; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Women's Prize for Fiction; National Book Award for Nonfiction; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; German Book Prize; Pulitzer Prize for Biography; National Book Award for Poetry; Premio Strega; Akutagawa Prize; Nebula Award for Best Novel; Prix Goncourt; Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; Pulitzer Prize for History; National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Joint winners and historical format categories are shown separately. This list reflects available records; it does not imply that every literary prize has been announced or included.