Reference Source: Prizes, Awards: Literary Awards

Winners list (past and present), press releases, author biographies and photos of the latest year's winners.

Formerly called the Whitbread Book Awards. The website for this UK award features an archive of past winners.

An annual award for fiction. This site includes an archive of award winners and shortlisted titles.

Contains acceptance speeches, selected author study guides (connect to from the "Publications" page), which include essays about and interviews with past National book winners and finalists.

Lists past winners and contains synopses of the works of all the winners for the current year

Tip: There are also several volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography devoted specifically to Nobel Prize laureates. Once you're inside the database, click "Browse Volumes" in the top navigation bar and scroll down the list to "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature."

This relatively recent literary award honors female writers of fiction. The site includes biographies, reviews and interviews with the winners for the past two years.

This sophisticated site offers a searchable database of past winners and nominated finalists. Biographies and photographs of winners are included on the website