[GUI Plugin] Calibre Awards - Find and add literary awards

[taurins]

You actually had me going there for a bit. Disturbingly, several of them are real!

This may an opportunity for someone else to create the "Anti-Award" lookup plugin!

I think I'm going to keep my plugin focused on awards intended to recognize literary achievement rather than awards intended to recognize literary catastrophe!

Thanks for the laugh.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by taurins

You actually had me going there for a bit. Disturbingly, several of them are real!

This may an opportunity for someone else to create the "Anti-Award" lookup plugin!

I think I'm going to keep my plugin focused on awards intended to recognize literary achievement rather than awards intended to recognize literary catastrophe!

Thanks for the laugh.

All of those are real awards. I quite like the Booker ones as Booker winners can be some of the dullest books available.

I would love for you to include all of those awards. Maybe split things into multiple types of awards. The type I posted. The type that's a popularity contest. The type that's a pissing contest, and the type that's actually for excellence (those I don't know which ones they would be given most are popularity contests).

[dunhill]

To make the plugin even more versatile for global and multi-language libraries, I'd like to suggest adding the following award sources in future releases:
1. Spanish & Ibero-American LiteraturePremio Miguel de Cervantes (The highest honor in Spanish-language literature)Premio Planeta (Highest commercial volume and distribution)Premio Alfaguara de NovelaPremio Herralde de Novela (Key indicator for independent/contemporary fiction)Premio Rómulo Gallegos
2. Key European & Regional AwardsPrix Renaudot / Prix Femina / Prix Médicis (France - essential additions alongside the Goncourt)Premio Strega (Italy)Premio Camões (Portugal / Brazil)International Dublin Literary Award (Ireland - excellent coverage of translated world fiction)
3. Crime, Mystery & ComicsEdgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America)CWA Gold Dagger (UK)Eisner Awards (For graphic novels/comics)
4. Asian LiteratureAkutagawa Prize & Naoki Prize (Japan)Mao Dun Literature Prize (China)I understand adding new sources depends on data availability and scrapers (e.g., Wikipedia, DBpedia, or dedicated award databases)

[taurins]

That's a great list. Upon review I'd say that I've already designated about half of them for future implementation. The other half was new to me, and I'll put them on my list. Again, I appreciate the input, that's exactly what I've been looking for from the beta release.

[JSWolf]

I hope the ones I suggested get added. Well the ones that are at least able to be added.