Costa Book Awards - Novel Award 
 
Pure by Andrew Miller
Next award: January 2013

Galaxy National Book Awards 

How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
Next award: January 2013  

T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

 
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
Next award: January 2013 

PEN/Faulkner Award 

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Next award: March 2013 

Mystery Writers of America (The Edgars)
 
Gone by Mo Hayder
Next award: April 2013 

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Deborah Egan
No award in 2012  

Commonwealth Writers Prize 

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Next award: June 2012 

IMPAC Award
 
Even The Dogs by Jon McGregor
Next award: June 2013

Orange Prize
 
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Next award: June 2013

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Next award: June 2012

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction)
 
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Next award: August 2012

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography)
 
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
Next award: August 2012

Frank O'Connor Short Story Award
 
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
Next award: September 2012

Man Booker

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Next award: October 2012  

Nobel Prize for Literature 
 
Tomas Transtromer
Next award: October 2012

Irish Book Awards Irish Book of the Year
 
Solace by Belinda McKeon
Next award: November 2012