Awards and Honors
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- 2002 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award
- 2004 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award
- 2005 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award
- 2004 Pushcart Prize
- 2005 O. Henry Award
- 2006 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction
- 2007 O. Henry Award
- 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
- 2007 Whiting Writers Award
- 2012 National Book Award (fiction), finalist, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year shortlist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 2012 Good Reads Choice Awards 2012, Best Fiction finalist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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