A number of countries offer a National Prize for Literature (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Literatura):
- National Prize for Literature (Argentina)
- National Literary Awards, Burma
- National Prize for Literature (Chile)
- Premio Nacional de Literatura (Costa Rica)
- National Prize for Literature (Cuba)
- National Prize for Literature (Dominica)
- Guatemala National Prize in Literature
- National Prize for Literature (Spain)
- National Prize for Literature (Mexico) (Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura) - see National Prize of Arts and Sciences (Mexico)
- National Prize for Literature (Venezuela)
- National Prize for Literature (Galicia)
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