Literary Awards

KOALA Award (Australia)

1998: Morris Gleitzman   Bumface   (shortlist)

Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany)

1983: Brian Aldiss  
1996: Stephen Baxter   The Time Ships

Kurt Maschler Award

1982: Michael Foreman   Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
1983: Anthony Browne   Gorilla
1984: John Burningham   Granpa
1988: Charlotte Voake   The Ridiculous Story of Gammer Gurton's Needle   (shortlist)
1988: Anthony Browne   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1990: Quentin Blake   All Join In
1991: Charlotte Voake   The Best of Aesop's Fables   (shortlist)
1992: Raymond Briggs   The Man
1993: Charlotte Voake   Caterpillar Caterpillar   (shortlist)
1995: Patrick Benson   The Little Boat by Kathy Henderson
1997: Charlotte Voake   Ginger   (shortlist)
1998: Quentin Blake   The Green Ship
1998: Anthony Browne   Voices in the Park

Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Sweden)

1992: Salman Rushdie  

Lakeland Book of the Year Award (Ron Sands Prize)

2003: Sarah Hall   Haweswater

Lambda Literary Award for Fiction

2000: Sarah Waters   Tipping the Velvet
2000: Sarah Waters   Affinity   (shortlist)
2001: Val McDermid   Booked for Murder   (shortlist)

Lampeter National Urdd Eisteddfod Literature Medal

1999: Fflur Dafydd  

Lancashire County Library Children's Book Award

2009: Sophie McKenzie   Blood Ties

Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award

1990: Joan Lingard   Tug of War   (runner-up)
1994: Theresa Breslin   Kezzie   (shortlist)
1998: Elizabeth Laird   Jay
2000: Jacqueline Wilson   Girls Under Pressure   (shortlist)
2000: Tim Bowler   Shadows
2001: Melvin Burgess   Bloodtide   (joint winner)
2002: Melvin Burgess   Billy Elliot   (shortlist)
2002: Malorie Blackman   Noughts & Crosses
2003: Julie Bertagna   Exodus
2004: Sherry Ashworth   Blinded by the Light   (shortlist)
2005: Jonathan Stroud   The Amulet of Samarkand
2005: Theresa Breslin   Saskia's Journey
2007: Tim Bowler   Frozen Fire   (shortlist)

Lancashire Primary Schools Book Award

2006: Nicola Morgan   Chicken Friend   (shortlist)

Lancashire Schools Library Fantastic Book Award

2009: Matt Haig   Shadow Forest

Lannan Literary Award (Fiction)

1994: Caryl Phillips  
1995: Louis de Bernières  
1996: Tim Pears  
1996: William Trevor  
1997: John Banville  
1998: J. M. Coetzee  
2000: David Malouf   Dream Stuff
2007: A. L. Kennedy  

Lannan Literary Award (Poetry)

1990: Peter Reading  
1990: Seamus Heaney  
1994: Simon Armitage  
1995: Carol Ann Duffy  
2004: Peter Reading  

Lannan Literary Fellowship

2003: Geoff Dyer  

Last Frontier Lifetime Achievement Award

1999: Arnold Wesker     (for disinguished service in the theatre)

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy

1976: Michael Frayn   Donkey's Years
1982: Michael Frayn   Noises Off
1984: Alan Ayckbourn   Intimate Exchanges
1985: Alan Ayckbourn   A Chorus Of Disapproval
1988: Alan Ayckbourn   Henceforward ...
1990: Alan Bennett   Single Spies
1993: Jim Cartwright   The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
1994: Alan Ayckbourn   Time Of My Life
1996: Alan Ayckbourn   Communicating Doors
1998: Alan Ayckbourn   Things We Do For Love
2000: Shelagh Stephenson   The Memory of Water
2000: Alan Ayckbourn   Comic Potential
2003: Alan Ayckbourn   Role Play

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director

1987: Alan Ayckbourn   A View from the Bridge

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy

2008: Ayub Khan-Din   Rafta Rafta

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play

2000: Alan Bennett   The Lady In The Van   (shortlist)

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play

1986: Christopher Hampton   Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1990: Alan Ayckbourn   Man Of The Moment
1991: Steven Berkoff   The Trial   (shortlist)
1999: Steven Berkoff   One Man   (shortlist)
2005: Alan Bennett   The History Boys

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival

2004: David Greig   Caligula   (shortlist)

Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement

2004: Neil Bartlett   Pericles   (shortlist)
2004: Tanika Gupta  

Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera

1992: Ruth Fainlight   The Dancer Hotoke   (shortlist)

Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production

1996: Alan Ayckbourn   By Jeeves

Laurence Olivier Most Promising Newcomer Award

1990: Charlotte Keatley     (nominated)

Laurence Olivier Special Award

1996: Harold Pinter  

Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play

1979: Harold Pinter   Betrayal
1980: David Edgar   The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1984: Michael Frayn   Benefactors
1988: Timberlake Wertenbaker   Our Country's Good
1988: Caryl Churchill   Serious Money
1994: Tom Stoppard   Arcadia
1997: Patrick Marber   Closer

Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry

2002: Frank Ormsby  

LCCCFA Best Screenwriter of the Year Award

1988: Alan Bennett   Prick Up Your Ears

LCCFA Best Screenwriter of the Year

1996: Alan Bennett   The Madness of King George
2001: Mike Leigh   Topsy Turvy   (nomination)

LCCFA Best Screenwriter of the Year Award

1986: Alan Bennett   A Private Function

Le Prix Lire au College (France)

1992: Meja Mwangi   Kariuki

Leeds Book Award

2009: Matt Haig   Shadow Forest

Leeds Book of the Year Award

2008: Catherine Johnson   A Nest of Vipers   (shortlist)

Leeds Children's Book Award

2009: Sophie McKenzie   Blood Ties

Legion d'Honneur (France)

2007: Harold Pinter  

Leicester Book of the Year Award

2006: Sherry Ashworth   Paralysed

Leicester Primary Schools Book Award

2006: Nicola Morgan   Chicken Friend   (shortlist)