Awards
- O. Henry Award, for the short story "Fleur" (published in Esquire, August 1986) (1987)
- Pushcart Prize in Poetry
- Western Literacy Association Award
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for Love Medicine (1984)
- World Fantasy Award, for The Antelope Wife (1999)
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2000).
- Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, 2005
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, for the children's book "The Game of Silence" (2006)
- April 2007 honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota; refused by Erdrich because of her opposition to the university's North Dakota Fighting Sioux mascot
- June 2009, honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from Dartmouth College
- National Book Award for Fiction for The Round House (2012)
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