Different categories of a same prize

[David]

Dear all,

I wanted to ask clarification about the Spanish National Prizes, that are awarded each year to different categories: fiction, poetry, non fiction/essay, children literature and drama.

I wonder if we should consider all of them as different awards or if they should be all under same award but different category.

As an example, see this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...

When I go to the awards part and click on edit award, I see that the year is written (1925) but not the category. Should I simply write on the category and all awards will be grouped in their categories within the same Spanish National Award (Premio Nacional de Literatura de España ? Should it be better to directly consider each category as a different award?

Then, I make a similar question. There is a quite important award given each year which is called ´Premio de la Critica´, given in Poetry and fiction but for each of the four languages of the country. Should this be considered only one award with different categories? Or it should be created an award per each language? Separating each category?

Thank you in advance for your opinions.

David.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

On the book edit page, you can edit an award to include categories. (See the little "edit" link at the end of the award name.) You can't add the same award more than once, but if a book has won in more than one category you can enter both of them in the Category field on the award edit screen.

Example: Contemporary & Inspirational

or whatever categories the award has.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

David wrote: "There is a quite important award given each year which is called ´Premio de la Critica´, given in Poetry and fiction but for each of the four languages of the country. Should this be considered only one award with different categories?"

For this one, again I would use the Category edit field and enter, for example:

Poetry (Catalan)

or whatever is appropriate.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

To me, the reason to use the same award as much as possible is that then all of the winners (and nominees if any) appear together. I think it is useful for a member to not only see what awards a book has won, but to see what other books have won an award. They can only see all of the winners of the same award if we do the best we can to enter them the same.