List of richest literary prizes

Many literary awards give significant remunerations.

This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$100,000 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.

Equivalent in US$(October 2024) The following awards have a superlative claim within certain defined categories, as described and sourced in the Notes column.

Announcement of the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature , one of the world's richest literary prizes, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm (2008).
Chinua Achebe, 2010 winner of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize