French Literary Awards
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière - created in 1948, for crime and detective fiction.
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française - created 1918.
- Prix Décembre - created in 1989.
- Prix Femina - created 1904, decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women.
- Prix Goncourt - created 1903, given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".
- Prix Goncourt des Lycéens - created in 1987.
- Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud - created in 1957.
- Prix Médicis - created 1958, awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match their talent."
- Prix Renaudot - created in 1926.
- Prix Tour-Apollo Award - 1972-1990, given to the best science fiction novel published in French during the preceding year.
- Prix des Deux Magots - created in 1933.
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