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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
Prizes in Hungary
- Aegon Art Award Awarded each spring from 2006 to 2020 by the insurer Aegon Hungary to a living Hungarian writer for an outstanding literary book of any genre first published the year before. A jury chose a shortlist of about ten books, five in 2020.
- Libri Literary Prize Awarded each May from 2016 to 2022 by the Libri bookshop chain to a book by a Hungarian author, first published in Hungarian the year before: fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs or other nonfiction. A jury of five chose the winner from a shortlist of ten.