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The Year in Prizes

Book Award Winners by Year

1917–2026

Each year here gathers every major literary prize awarded in that year onto one page, across all 24 lists in the archive, followed by selections published that year from our Never Won a Pulitzer or Booker collection. 110 years have enough winners to carry a page. The years before 1917 do not: the Nobel was the only prize being awarded, and one book is not a year in books.

2020s

2026 11 winners 2025 23 winners 2024 23 winners 2023 23 winners 2022 23 winners 2021 22 winners 2020 23 winners

2010s

2019 23 winners 2018 23 winners 2017 22 winners 2016 22 winners 2015 22 winners 2014 22 winners 2013 22 winners 2012 21 winners 2011 22 winners 2010 23 winners

2000s

2009 23 winners 2008 23 winners 2007 22 winners 2006 22 winners 2005 23 winners 2004 22 winners 2003 23 winners 2002 22 winners 2001 23 winners 2000 22 winners

1990s

1999 22 winners 1998 21 winners 1997 21 winners 1996 21 winners 1995 20 winners 1994 19 winners 1993 21 winners 1992 20 winners 1991 20 winners 1990 19 winners

1980s

1989 20 winners 1988 19 winners 1987 19 winners 1986 18 winners 1985 18 winners 1984 16 winners 1983 17 winners 1982 17 winners 1981 17 winners 1980 16 winners

1970s

1979 16 winners 1978 16 winners 1977 15 winners 1976 16 winners 1975 17 winners 1974 16 winners 1973 16 winners 1972 14 winners 1971 13 winners 1970 14 winners

1960s

1969 15 winners 1968 13 winners 1967 13 winners 1966 16 winners 1965 13 winners 1964 11 winners 1963 12 winners 1962 11 winners 1961 11 winners 1960 11 winners

1950s

1959 11 winners 1958 11 winners 1957 9 winners 1956 11 winners 1955 11 winners 1954 9 winners 1953 10 winners 1952 9 winners 1951 9 winners 1950 9 winners

1940s

1949 7 winners 1948 7 winners 1947 7 winners 1946 5 winners 1945 7 winners 1944 7 winners 1943 6 winners 1942 6 winners 1941 5 winners 1940 6 winners

1930s

1939 7 winners 1938 8 winners 1937 6 winners 1936 6 winners 1935 5 winners 1934 6 winners 1933 6 winners 1932 6 winners 1931 6 winners 1930 6 winners

1920s

1929 6 winners 1928 6 winners 1927 6 winners 1926 6 winners 1925 6 winners 1924 6 winners 1923 6 winners 1922 6 winners 1921 4 winners 1920 3 winners

1910s

1919 5 winners 1918 4 winners 1917 4 winners

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