Major Literary Prizes: Winners and Judges

Authors: Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young

Dataset of the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.

To download the full dataset in a tab-delimited file, click here.

To read the dataset's curatorial statement, click here.

For a related dataset that contains HathiTrust Digital Library records for books written by prize-winning authors, click here.

Link to the raw data: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ecds/post45-datasets/main/winnersandjudges.tsv

person_id	full_name	given_name	last_name	gender	elite_institution	graduate_degree	mfa_degree	iowa_mfa_person_id	stegner	role	prize_institution	prize_name	prize_year	prize_genre	prize_type	prize_amount	title_of_winning_book
person_id	full_name	given_name	last_name	gender	elite_institution	graduate_degree	mfa_degree	iowa_mfa_person_id	stegner	role	prize_institution	prize_name	prize_year	prize_genre	prize_type	prize_amount	title_of_winning_book