John Updike - Awards

Awards

• 1959 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1959 National Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award
• 1964 National Book Award for Fiction
• 1965 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
• 1966 O. Henry Prize
• 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
• 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• 1982 National Book Award for Fiction (hardcover)
• 1982 Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award
• 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
• 1984 National Arts Club Medal of Honor
• 1987 St. Louis Literary Award
• 1987 Ambassador Book Award
• 1987 Helmerich Award, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
• 1988 PEN/Malamud Award
• 1989 National Medal of Arts
• 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
• 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• 1991 O. Henry Prize
• 1992 Honorary Doctor of Letters from Harvard University
• 1995 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1995 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 1997 Ambassador Book Award
• 1998 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation
• 2003 National Humanities Medal
• 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
• 2005 Man Booker International Prize nominee
• 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story
• 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction
• 2008 Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2008 Jefferson Lecture