The word "awardees" is correct and usable in written English
It is most often used to refer to the recipients of awards or prizes. For example: "The awardees of the World Peace Prize were recognized for their exceptional work."
The first awardees were American inventor Robert Fischell, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, and Irish singer Bono.
There were no stated criteria for the awards: some awardees received prizes because of their accomplishments, while others received it because of their originality, intelligence, or promise.
In the grand East Room — gold curtains, crystal chandeliers — the awardees took their seats, in front of enormous oil paintings of George and Martha Washington.
Without any specific criteria, the choice of awardees and fields was open to interpretation.
After serving as a juror on dozens of grant panels and competitions, I started to notice that female composers frequently make up about 10 percent of the initial applicant pool, but often represent 20 percent of the awardees.
Mr. Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea since 1979, has committed $3 million a year for five years; half the money is to go to five awardees, who receive $300,000 grants, and half to cover the costs of selecting the winners.
The first awardee, announced in May, was Helen Dunmore, a lyrical writer whose novel A Spell of Winter had won high praise.
She learned the dance, she said, from the 97-year-old awardee for service to the field, Frederic Franklin.
In Italy, as the 2015 deadline approached for nominations for the country's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, concerns about the possibility of a pseudonymous awardee escalated into front-page news and scathing polemic.
Zambia's Thandiwe Mweetwa is a lion expert and a National Geographic awardee.
He was the recipient of the Joseph Chase Award in Mathematics and was a National Merit Scholarship awardee.
