Prizes and Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature

• 1928 Sinclair Lewis

• 1980 Czeslaw Milosz

• 1987 Joseph Brodsky

• 1990 Octavio Paz

• 1993 Toni Morrison

• 2020 Louise Glück 

Pulitzer Prize 

For the Novel

• 1923 Willa Cather, One of Ours

• 1966 Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories

• 1972 Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

• 1973 Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter

• 1988 Toni Morrison, Beloved

• 2000 Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

• 2011 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

• 2023 Hernan Diaz, Trust

For Poetry

• 1922 Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected Poems

• 1924 Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes

• 1929 Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown’s Body

• 1931 Robert Frost, Collected Poems

• 1933 Archibald MacLeish, Conquistador

• 1937 Robert Frost, A Further Range

• 1944 Stephen Vincent Benet, Western Star

• 1948 W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: a Baroque Eclogue

• 1953 Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917-1952

• 1954 Theodore Roethke, The Waking: Poems

• 1960 W. D. Snodgrass, Heart’s Needle

• 1963 William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems

• 1967 Anne Sexton, Live or Die

• 1968 Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours

• 1973 Maxine Kumin, Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected

• 1978 Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems

• 1980 Donald Justice, Selected Poems

• 1983 Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems 

• 1988 William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

• 1990 Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems

• 1993 Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

• 1994 Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected

• 1995 Philip Levine, The Simple Truth

• 1996 Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field

• 1999 Mark Strand, Blizzard of One

• 2000 C. K. Williams, Repair

• 2003 Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel

• 2007 Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard

• 2012 Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars

• 2015 Gregory Pardlo, Digest

• 2018 Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems

• 2019 Forrest Gander, Be With

• 2020 Jericho Brown, The Tradition

• 2021 Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

• 2023 Carl Phillips, Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020

PEN America

Debut Short Story Collection

• Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

• Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate…

• Mia Alvar, In the Country: Stories

• Rion Amilcar Scott. Insurrections: Stories

Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

• Crystal Hana Ki, “Solee” Southern Review

• Maud Streep, “The Crazies” One Story

PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

• Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker

• Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

• Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father

• Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

• Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park

PEN/Jean Stein Award

• Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

• Ross Gay, Be Holding: a Poem

• Percival Everett, Dr. No

PEN Open Book Award

• Kevin Young, The Grey Album

• Nina McConigley, Cowboys and East Indians

• Rick Barot, Chord

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection

• C. K. Williams 1998

• Heather McHugh, 2000

• Robert Pinsky, 2004

• Frank Bidart, 2014

• Victoria Chang, 2021

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

• David Hinton, The Selected Poems of wang Wei

• Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, Diaries of Exile

• Jennifer Grotz & Piotr Sommer, Everything I Don’t Know

PEN Translation Prize

• Peter Constantine, Six Early Stories

• Bill Johnston, Stone Upon Stone

• Allison Markin Powell, The Ten Loves of Nishino

PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation

Suzanne Jill Levine

PEN/Malamud

• William Maxwell, 1995

• Joyce Carol Oates, 1996

• Richard Bausch, 2004

• Lorrie Moore, 2005

• Peter Ho Davies, 2008

• Amy Hempel, 2009

• Jhumpa Lahiri, 2017

• Amina Gautier, 2018

• Charles Baxter, 2021

• Yiyun Li, 2022

PEN/Faulkner

• Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope, 2022

• Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose, 2023

National Book Critics’ Circle 

Award in Fiction

• 1976, John Gardner, October Light

• 1977, Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

• 1988, Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories

• 1995, Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss

• 2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

• 2021, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois

• 2023, Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home

Award in Nonfiction

• 1986, Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

• 2000, Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

• 2023, Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

• 1986, Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays

• 2003, Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

• 2009, Eula Biss, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

• 2021, Melissa Febos, Girlhood

Award in Poetry

• 1979, Phillip Levine, Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years from Somewhere

• 1981, A. R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees

• 1985, Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles

• 1986, Edward Hirsch, Wild Gratitude

• 1987, CK Williams, Flesh and Blood

• 1988, Donald Hall, The One Day

• 1995, William Matthews, Time and Money

• 2004, Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins

• 2007, Mary Jo Bang, Elegy

• 2010, C D Wright, One with Others

• 2013, Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog

• 2015, Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude

• 2016, Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons

• 2020, Francine j. harris, Here Is the Sweet Hand

John Leonard Prize for First Book

2015 Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas

National Book Awards 

For Fiction

• 1953, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

• 1966, Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories

• 1970, Joyce Carol Oates, Them

• 1977, Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

• 1979, Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato

• 1980, John Irving, The World According to Garp

• 1982, William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

• 1983, Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

• 1983, Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place

• 1996, Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever and Other Stories

• 2018, Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

• 2019, Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

For Nonfiction 

• 1953, Bernard de Voto, The Course of Empire

• 1986, Barry Hannah, Arctic Dreams

• 2005, Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

• 1980, Julia Child, Julia Child and More Company

For Poetry

• 1950, William Carlos Williams, Paterson

• 1953, Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems

• 1956, W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles

• 1959, Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind

• 1965, Theodore Roethke, The Far Field

• 1973, A. R. Ammons, Collected Poems, 1951-1971

• 1974, Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck

• 1978, Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems 

• 1980, Philip Levine, Ashes: Poems New and Old

• 1983, Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems

• 1991, Phillip Levine, What Work Is

• 1993, A. R. Ammons, Garbage

• 2003, C. K. Williams, The Singing

• 2010, Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

• 2011, Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split

• 2013, Mary Szybist, Incarnadine

• 2014, Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

• 2017, Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems

• 2019, Arthur Sze, Sight Lines

• 2022, John Keene, Punks: New and Selected Poems

For Translation

2023, Bruna Dantas Lobato Stenio Gardel’s The Words That Remain

Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry

• 1994, Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular

• 1996, Deborah Digges, Rough Music

• 2001, Alan Shapiro, The Dead Alive and Busy

• 2002, Carl Phillips, The Tether

• 2003, Linda Gregerson, Waterborne

• 2008, Tom Sleigh, Space Walk

• 2009, Matthea Harvey, Modern Life

• 2013, Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours

• 2016, Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

• 2017, Vievee Francis, Forest Primeval

• 2021, John Murillo, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

• 2023, Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian

• 2024, Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation

Kate Tufts Award for First Book of Poetry

• Barbara Ras, Bite Every Sorrow

• Terrance Hayes, Muscular Music

• Cate Marvin, World’s Tallest Disaster

• Patrick Phillips, Chattahoochee

• Yona Harvey, Hemming the Water

• Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior

• Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of

• Robert Wood Lynn, Mothman Apologia 

Academy of American Poets 

Wallace Stevens Prize

• 1996, Adrienne Rich

• 1997, Anthony Hecht

• 1998, A. R. Ammons

• 2000, Frank Bidart

• 2004, Mark Strand

• 2007, Charles Simic

• 2008, Louise Glück

• 2010, Galway Kinnell

• 2011, Yusef Komunyakaa

• 2013, Phillip Levine

• 2017, Jorie Graham

• 2020, Nikky Finney

• 2021, Toi Derricotte

• 2023, Afaa Michael Weaver

First Book Prize

• 1981, Alberto Rios, Whispering to Fool the Wind

• 1997, Barbara Ras, Bite Every Sorrow

• 2002, Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the Divided Country

• 2004, Geri Doran, Resin

Laughlin Prize for Second Book

• 1955, Donald Hall

• 1959, Donald Justice, The Summer Anniversaries

• 1969, Marvin Bell, A Probable Volume of Dreams

• 1981, Carolyn Forché The Country Between Us

• 1985, Cornelius Eady, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze

• 1987, Garrett Hongo, The River of Heaven

• 1994, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Song

• 1996, David Rivard, Wise Poison

• 1997, Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel

• 2002, Karen Volkman, Spar

• 2006, Tracy K. Smith, Duende

• 2007, Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar

• 2010, Michael Dickman, Flies

• 2012, Catherine Barnett, The Game of Boxes

• 2017, Sam Sax, Bury It 

• 2018, Geffrey Davis, Night Angler

• 2020, Chet’la Sebree, Field Study

• 2024, Michelle Penaloza, All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems

Fellowship Prize

• 1953, Robert Frost

• 1956, William Carlos Williams

• 1966, Archibald MacLeish

• 1969, Anthony Hecht

• 1970, Howard Nemerov

• 1975, Robert Hayden

• 1979, May Swenson

• 1980, Mark Strand

• 1988, Donald Justice

• 1990, William Meredith

• 1992, Adrienne Rich

• 1998, Charles Simic

• 2001, Ellen Bryant Voigt

• 2004, Jane Hirshfield

• 2006, Carl Phillips

• 2008, Brigit Pegeen Kelly

• 2013, Carolyn Forché

• 2014, Tracy K. Smith

• 2016, Natasha Trethewey

• 2019, Ilya Kaminsky

• 2020, Carmen Gimenez

• 2021, Camille T. Dungy

• 2022, Jericho Brown

• 2023, Major Jackson

Discovery/The Nation Prize

• 1965, Mark Strand

• 1975, David St. John

• 1976, Ellen Bryant Voigt

• 1981, Michael Collier

• 1981, Garrett Hongo

• 1986, Brigit Pegeen Kelly

• 1991, Joshua Weiner

• 1995: Mary Jo Bang

• 1995, James Longenbach

• 1999, Miranda Field

• 1999, Nick Flynn

• 2000, Anthony Deaton

• 2000, Andrew Feld

• 2000, Sue Kwock Kim

• 2001, Monica Ferrell

• 2003, Patrick Phillips

• 2006, Nicky Beer

• 2007, Paula Bohince

• 2007, Darcie Dennigan

• 2009, Bridget Lowe

• 2011, Ansel Elkins

• 2011, Solmaz Sharif

• 2013, Erika L. Sanchez

• 2014, Justin Boening

• 2015, Jenny George

• 2017, Diana Khoi Nguyen

• 2018, Paul Tran

• 2019, Omotara James

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation 

Award in Debut Fiction

• Tayari Jones, Leaving Atlanta

• Aminatta Forma, Ancestor Stones

• Ladee Hubbard, Africaville

Award in Fiction

• Percival Everett, Erasure

• Mat Johnson, Hunting in Harlem

• Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier

• Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

• Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account

• James Hannaham, Delicious Foods

• Percival Everett, Telephone

• Percival Everett, The Trees

• Elizabeth Nunez, Not For Everyday Use

• Ross Gay, Inciting Joy (memoir)

Award in Poetry

• Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Darktown Follies

• Vievee Francis, Forest Primeval

• Donika Kelly, Bestiary

• Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

North Star Award

• Natasha Trethewey, 2013

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

• 2008, Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief

• 2014, Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning

• 2016, Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter

• 2019, DeShawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills

• 2021, Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 

For Fiction

• 1988, Toni Morrison, Beloved

• 1994, Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Latin Deli

• 1995: Reginald Gibbons, Sweetbitter

• 1996, Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls’ Rising

• 2000, Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life

• 2003, Reetika Vazirani, World Hotel

• 2014, Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 

• 2014, Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke

• 2017, Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes

• 2022, Percival Everett, The Trees

• 2023, Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

For Poetry

• 2015, Jericho Brown, The New Testament

• 2019, Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water

• 2020, Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

• 2021, Victoria Chang, Obit

• 2022, Donika Kelly, The Renunciations

• 2024, Monica Youn, From From

For Nonfiction

• 2005, A. Van Jordan, Macnolia

• 2018, Kevin Young: Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

• 2021, Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

Before Columbus Foundation American Book Awards

• 1984, Mary Sarton

• 1988, Toni Morrison

• 1995, Chang-rae Lee

• 1999, Gloria Naylor

• 1999, Josip Novakovich

• 1999, Luis Albert Urrea

• 2000, Janisse Ray

• 2001, Elizabeth Nunez

• 2007, Reyna Grande

• 2009, Jericho Brown, Please

• 2010, Victor LaValle, The Big Machine

• 2010, Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls

• 2011, Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow

• 2011, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds

• 2012, Kevin Young: Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

• 2013, Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

• 2014, Emily Raboteau, Searching for Zion

• 2015, Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account

• 2016, Mat Johnson, Loving Day

• 2016, John Keene, Counternarratives

• 2017, Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root

• 2017, Solmaz Sharif, Look

• 2018, Victor LaValle, The Changeling

• 2020, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

• 2020, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills

• 2021, Carolyn Forché, In the Lateness of the World

• 2022, Philip B. Williams, Mutiny

• 2023, Javier Zamora, Solito: A Memoir

• 2024, Roger Reeves, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays

• 2024, Monica Youn, From From

MacArthur Genius Grants

• 1990, Patricia Hampl

• 1992, Joanna Scott

• 1994, Adrienne Rich

• 2001, Andrea Barrett

• 2010, Yiyun Li

• 2012, Dinaw Mengestu

• 2018, John Keene

• 2022, Robin Wall Kimmerer

• 1981, A. R. Ammons

• 1981, Joseph Brodsky

• 1984, Galway Kinnell

• 1984, Charles Simic

• 1987, May Swenson

• 1987, Mark Strand

• 1990, Jorie Graham

• 1998, Edward Hirsch

• 1998, Linda Bierds

• 2004, C D Wright

• 2009, Heather McHugh

• 2011, A. E. Stallings

• 2014, Terrance Hayes

• 2015, Ellen Bryant Voigt

• 2018, Natalie Diaz

• 2021, Reginald Dwayne Betts

• 2024, Jericho Brown

United States Poets Laureate

• 1952: William Carlos Williams

• 1958-59: Robert Frost

• 1961-63: Louis Untermeyer

• 1963-64: Howard Nemerov

• 1976-78: Robert Hayden

• 1978-1980: William Meredith

• 1981-82: Maxine Kumin

• 1982-84: Anthony Hecht

• 1987-88: Richard Wilbur

• 1988-90: Howard Nemerov

• 1990-91: Mark Strand

• 1991-92: Joseph Brodsky

• 1997-2000: Robert Pinsky

• 2003-2004: Louise Glück

• 2006-2007: Donald Hall

• 2007-2008: Charles Simic

• 2011-2012: Philip Levine

• 2012-2014: Natasha Trethewey

• 2017-2019: Tracy K. Smith

• 2025-2026: Arthur Sze