Literary Awards in the System of Book Awards in Ukraine

Literary awards have been analyzed within the system of book and ratings in Ukraine; their characteristics studied along with criteria for selection texts editions, assessment methodology as well impact on recognition authors books Ukraine beyond. Selected analysis were already published texts, thus focus is placed awards, rankings. In order to develop a literary works part systematization under various has put forward. Distinction drawn between concepts award; specifics competitions, provided. are based discussion content, namely relevance, freshness, artistic merit, aesthetic value others; consider totality publishing publication its culture. The study concentrates selection, criteria, marketing potential fiction authors-winners dozen Book Forum Best Award, Year rating, BBC Year, Ukrainian (rating by Korrespondent magazine), LitAkcent Critic’s Rating, Golden Writers others. nominations competitions discussed. each regards identified coverage media, promotion sales, further procurement translations being made into other languages. others used analyze genres: poetry, prose, special genre literature, belles-lettres, memoirs, documentary, scripts, drama, teenage children’s literature.