El canon literario no académico: construcción, características, responsables, selección y recepción en los epitextos públicos virtuales

Literary awards are one of the essential elements of the publishing market and one of its common promotional instruments. They are part of our literary culture; they provide visibility; they draw in the media and readers; they influence a work’s literary legitimacy; they are an element to be taken into account when it comes to academic and popular canonization. The objective of this article is to compile, identify, classify and analyse literary awards for children’s and young adults’ literature in Spain and to ascertain their key attributes. To these ends, we compiled and analysed information pertaining to 103 literary awards. We conclude, among other matters, that the set of awards for children’s and young adults’ literature has grown considerably, especially since the 1980s; that the language of the works reflects public language policies; and that the genres reflect current publishing trends.