The International Dublin Literary Award is given to writers, as well as to the translator(s) if the book chosen was written in a language other than English.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature.
Spoof awards include: The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests, given to deliberately bad grammar There are also literary awards targeted specifically to encourage the writing from African American origin and authors of African descent.
Australian author Richard Flanagan wrote a critique of literary awards, saying "National prizes are often a barometer of bourgeois bad taste."
He says juries can be influenced by vendettas, paybacks and payoffs, "most judges are fair-minded people.