Aga Khan Award, Paris Review, 1958 |
Houghton-Mifflin literary fellowship, 1959 |
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, 1959 |
National Book Award for Fiction for Goodbye, Columbus, 1960 |
Daroff Award, Jewish Book Council of America for Goodbye, Columbus, 1960 |
Second prize in the O. Henry Prize Story Contest for "Defender of the Faith," 1960 |
Guggenheim fellowship, 1960 |
Ford Foundation grant in playwriting, 1965 |
Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1970 |
American Book Award nomination for The Ghost Writer, 1980 |
National Books Critics Circle nomination for The Anatomy Lesson, 1983 |
American Book Award nomination for The Anatomy Lesson, 1984 |
National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife, 1987 |
National Arts Club Medal of Honor, 1991 |
National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony, 1992 |
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Operation Shylock, 1993 |
Time magazine's Best American Novel of the year for Operaton Shylock, 1993 |
Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in the Arts, 1993 |
Karl Capek Prize (Czech Republic), 1994 |
National Book Award for fiction, Sabbath's Theater, 1995 |
National Book Critics Circle nomination for American Pastoral, 1997 |
National Book Award nomination for American Pastoral, 1997 |
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, American Pastoral, 1997 |
Ambassador Book Award, English-Speaking Union, for I Married a Communist, 1998 |
National Medal of Arts, 1998 |
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Human Stain, 2000 |
Time magazine's America's Best Novelist, 2001 |
American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Metal for Fiction, 2001 |
Franz Kafka Prize (Czech Republic), 2001 |
France's Medicis foreign book prize for The Human Stain, 2002 |
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 2002 |