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x Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις", poiesis, a "making") is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as...

National Book Award for Poetry

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Arthur Rense Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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x Architecture

Royal Gold Medal

For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture (Latin „architectura“, from the Greek „arkitekton“, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science...

Most Significant Modern Contributions to Scottish Heritage

Stirling Prize

Driehaus Prize

Mies Van der Rohe Award

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x Novel

National Book Award for Science Fiction

A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century. The...

Prometheus Award for Best Novel

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Prix Tour-Apollo Award

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x Film

Palme d'Or

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....

Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay

Spur Award for Best Drama Script

Spur Award for Best Documentary

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x Acting

Theatre World Award

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. Most early sources...

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama

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x Television

Kristallen for Best Female Host

Television (TV) is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set,...

Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

PEN USA Literary Award for a Teleplay

x Journalism

World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via media including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, mobile phone and the internet. Journalists—be they writers, editors or photographers; broadcast presenters or...

Andrew Cross Award

PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism

x Literature

National Book Award for Arts and Letters

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In...

National Book Award for Science Fiction

National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs

National Book Award for Nonfiction

National Book Award for Poetry

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x Non-fiction

National Book Award for Arts and Letters

Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the...

National Book Award for The Sciences

National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion

National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration

National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion

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x Science fiction

National Book Award for Science Fiction

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...

Prometheus Award for Best Novel

Prometheus Special Award

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

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x Science fiction studies

Pilgrim Award

This article is about the field of science fiction studies. For the journal of the same title, please see Science Fiction Studies. Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history,...

x Libertarianism

Prometheus Award for Best Novel

Libertarianism is a term adopted by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which advocate the maximization of individual liberty and the minimization or even abolition of the state. Libertarians embrace viewpoints across that spectrum, ranging...

Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

Prometheus Special Award

x Speculative fiction

Scribe Award for Speculative Fiction: Best Novel—Original

Speculative fiction is a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally overlaps one or more of the following: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction,...

Scribe Award for Speculative Fiction: Best Novel—Adapted

Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction

Sunburst Award

Golden Blaster Award

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x Religion

National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion

A religion is a system of human thought which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, deity or deities, or ultimate truth....

National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration

National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion

x Science

National Book Award for The Sciences

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is, in its broadest sense, any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome. In this sense, science may refer to...

National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion

National Book Award for Science

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology

x Young adult literature

Margaret Edwards Award

Young Adult Literature is also called "YA Lit". The definition of Young Adult Literature (YA Lit) varies based upon the age group at which the literature is aimed, and who is asked. Authors, readers, and young adult agencies all have different views...

Edgar Award for Best Young Adult

Angus Book Award

Andre Norton Award

CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers

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x Short story

Rea Award for the Short Story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or books....

Hugo Award for Best Short Story

The Caine Prize for African Writing

Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

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x Comic literature

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

Comic literature is a genre of prose fiction designed to amuse the audience. Comic literature is an umbrella term, and occasionally branches into may other genres, such as fantasy and science fiction (e.g. Terry Pratchett). Meanwhile other famous...

x Children's literature

Regina Medal

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed by the...

Caldecott Medal

Newbery Medal

Edgar Award for Best Juvenile

Edgar Award for Best Young Adult

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x Crime fiction

Cartier Diamond Dagger

A crime film, in the most general sense, is a film that involves various aspects crime and the criminal justice system. Stylistically, it can fall under many different genres, most commonly drama, thriller, Mystery film and film noir. Films focused...

Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

Edgar Award for Best Play

Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Edgar Award for Best Novel

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x Philosophy

National Book Award for Science, Philosophy and Religion

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as mysticism or...

National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion

x Lifetime achievement

Cartier Diamond Dagger

Edward E. Smith Memorial Award

World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement

Gandalf Grand Master Award

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

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x Debut work

Compton Crook Award

A debut work is the first work of a specific sort (first novel, first published story, first book of poems, first film appearance, etc.). A large number of awards are given for the first work in their discipline.

Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film

National Book Award for First Work of Fiction

Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel

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x Essay

SFRA Pioneer Award

An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the...

Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay

Graduate Student Paper Award

x Fiction

National Book Award for Science Fiction

Fiction (Latin: fictum, "created") is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contrafactual events (events that are not true at the time of writing). In contrast to this is non-fiction, which deals exclusively in...

Man Booker International Prize

Hugo Award for Best Short Story

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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x Public limited company

A public limited company (legally abbreviated to plc with or without full stops) is a type of limited liability company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (and other jurisdictions where companies law is derived from English law) which...

x Business

Wirtschaft

A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn...

x Animated cartoon

An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). This is distinct...

x Single

In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. The basic parameters of the music single were established in the late 1800s, when the gramophone...

x Engineering

MacRobert Award

Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired...

x Structural engineering

IStructE Gold Medal

Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its...

Structural Special Award

Award for Pedestrian Bridges

x Concrete Structures

Building of the Year

x Physiology

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Physiology (from Greek φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia, "study of") is the science of the functioning of living systems. It is a subcategory of biology. In physiology, the scientific method is applied to determine how organisms,...

x Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and...

x Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

Physics covers the AB portion of the Advanced Placement exam.  It contains animations, text review and problem sets.

Wolf Prize in Physics

President's Medal

Kelvin Medal

Appleton Medal

x Economics

Nobel Prize in Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, ...

Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics

AP Scholar

x Mathematics

Nemmers Prize in Mathematics

Mathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. There is debate...

Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Fields Medal

Abel Prize

Crafoord Prize

x Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Chemistry (from Arabic:الكيم Latinized: chem (kēme), meaning "earth") is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. It is a physical...

Wolf Prize in Chemistry

x Computing Science

Turing Award

Computer science (or computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the...

Knuth Prize

x Algorithm

Knuth Prize

In mathematics, computing, linguistics, and related subjects, an algorithm is an effective method for solving a problem using a finite sequence of instructions. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and many other fields. Each...

x Atmospheric physics

Appleton Medal

Atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists attempt to model Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of the other planets using fluid flow equations, chemical models, radiation balancing,...

x Theoretical physics

Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics in an attempt to explain natural phenomena. Its central core is mathematical physics, though other conceptual techniques are also used. The goal...

x Secularism

Secularist of the Year

Secularism is the concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs. In one sense, secularism may assert the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, and freedom from the government...

x Humanism

International Humanist Award

Humanism is a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition. This article uses the words Humanism and Humanist (with a capital 'H' and no adjective such as ...

x Stand-up comedy

Best Live Standup

Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand. The performer...

x Cricket

Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The...

Captain of the Year

Emerging Player of the Year

x Musical composition

Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition

Musical composition is: A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). If composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory,...

x Violin

The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. The violin is sometimes...

x Violoncello

The cello (plural cellos or celli — the c is pronounced [tʃ], as in the ch in "check", thus "chel-lo") is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as...

x Piano

Arthur Rubinstein Award

The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal....

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

x Human rights

United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights

Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty,...

x Courage

Profile in Courage Award

Courage, also known as bravery, will, intrepidity, and loyalty, is the ability to confront fear, pain, risk/danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. "Physical courage" is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, or threat of death, while "moral...

x Horse racing

European Horse of the Year

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. It is inextricably...

x African literature

The Caine Prize for African Writing

African literature refers to literature of and from Africa. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa, while the European perception of literature generally refers to written...

Noma Award

Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa

x Food

One Michelin Star

The food industry is the complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the...

Two Michelin Stars

Three Michelin Stars

x Illustration

Caldecott Medal

An illustration is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate textual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper...

Pura Belpré Award for Illustration

Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration

Kate Greenaway Medal

Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

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x Teleplay

Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

A teleplay is a play written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a TV script from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films. On the hour-long TV drama shows of the Golden...

PEN USA Literary Award for a Teleplay

x Play

Edgar Award for Best Play

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little...

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

John Whiting Award

Pearson Award for Best New Play

Tanizaki Prize

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x Screenplay

Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A play for television is known as a teleplay. The format is...

Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay

Spur Award for Best Drama Script

PEN USA Literary Award for a Screenplay

x American literature

Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its...

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

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