The Pakistan Academy of Letters gives the following two awards every year for the best books published by Pakistani writers and poets in English:
Named after the eminent prose writer of Urdu and English, Patras Bukhari, this award is given every year to the best prose book published in English by a Pakistani writer. This award was launched in 1981. Before launch of the Daud Kamal Award in 2017 this award covered the entire Pakistani English literature. So far, the following Pakistani poets and writers have received this award:
| # | Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Window to the East | Dr. A. Rashid Tabassum | 1401 AH |
| 2 | My Second in Kentucky | Alamgir Hashmi | 1402 AH |
| 3 | The Bride | Bapsi Sidhwa | 1403 AH |
| 4 | Jawan to General | General M. Musa | 1404 AH |
| 5 | Quest for Eternal | Shahzad Kaisar | 1405 AH |
| 6 | Diary of a Diplomat | Afzal Iqbal | 1406 AH |
| 7 | Pakistan Reflections | Akram Azam | 1407 AH |
| 8 | Ice Candy Man | Bapsi Sidhwa | 1408 AH |
| 9 | Drip Dry Soul | Musarrat Taimuri Burki | 1409 AH |
| 10 | An Introduction to the Poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz | Imdad Hussain | 1410 AH |
| 11 | Shade in Passing | G. F. Riaz | 1411 AH |
| 12 | The Life and Times of Nazir Akbar Abadi | S. M.Abbas | 1412 AH |
| 13 | Over My Shoulder | Alice Faiz | 1413 AH |
| 14 | The Imprisoned Air | Ejaz Rahim | 1414 AH |
| 15 | Diorama | Bushra Shams | 1415 AH |
| 16 | Languages and Politics in Pakistan | Dr. Tariq Rehman | 1416 AH |
| 17 | Cactus in My Throat | Ejaz Rahim | 1417 AH |
| 18 | Liquid Clocks | Shehryar Rashid | 1418 AH |
| 19 | Modern Urdu Prose | Safdar Mir | 1998 |
| 20 | Goethe, Iqbal and the Orient | M. Akram Chughtai | 1999 |
| 21 | Papio | Abdul Basit Haqani | 2000 |
| 22 | Yielding Years | M. Athar Tahir | 2001 |
| 23 | Kartography | Kamila Shamsie | 2002 |
| 24 | Unlikely Beginnings | Major General A. O. Mitha | 2003 |
| 25 | Maps for Lost Lovers | Nadeem Aslam | 2004 |
| 26 | Broken Verses | Kamila Shamsie | 2005 |
| 27 | The End of Innocence | Moni Mohsin | 2006 |
| 28 | No Space for Further Burials | Faryal Gohar | 2007 |
| 29 | A Matter of Detail | Maniza Naqvi | 2008 |
| 30 | Saffron Dreams | Shehla Abdullah | 2009 |
| 31 | Word for Word | Khalid Ahmed | 2010 |
| 32 | Safwat Ghayyur and other Poems | Ejaz Rahim | |
| 33 | The Gift of Possession | M. Athar Tahir | 2012 |
| 34 | The Pity of Partition | Ayesha Jalal | 2013 |
| 35 | The Last Tea | M. Athar Tahir | 2015 |
| 36 | Scared Thirsts, Secular Hungers | Ejaz Rahim | 2016 |
| 37 | Invisible People | Mian Raza Rabbani | 2017 |
| 38 | The Runaways | Fatima Bhutto | 2018 |
| 39 | The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack | M. H. Naqvi | 2019 |
| 40 | The Smile Snatchers | Mian Raza Rabbani | 2020 |
| 41 | Other Days | Arshad Waheed | 2021 |
| 42 | Best of Friends | Kamila Shamsie | 2022 |
Due to the lack of the required number of books published in 2011 and 2014, the Patras Bukhari Award could not be given.
Named after a prominent Pakistani English poet, this award is given annually to the best collection of poetry in English. The award was launched in 2017. Earlier, the Patras Bukhari Award covered all Pakistani English literature. The following Pakistani poets have received this award so far:
| # | Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meraki | Sarah Javed | 2018 |
| 2 | The Squeezed Emotions | Amna Shahid | 2019 |
| 3 | Garden of Secrets Revisited | Ejaz Rahim | 2020 |
| 4 | Othered | Seher Hashmi | 2021 |
| 5 | Charlie Hebdo and Other Poems | Ejaz Rahim | 2022 |
