Study of literary awards convened during 2000 and 2001 in Catalonia and in Catalan language outside the four Catalan provinces, carried out in order to help to analyze in detail and precision the role of literary awards in the promotion and in the literary creativity from given qualitative data. The study was commissioned by the Technical Office of the Department de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, and performed from Lletra (Open University of Catalonia) under the direction of Dr. Jaume Subirana Ortín.