C. K. Williams - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974.
  • Bernard Conner Prize, The Paris Review, 1983.
  • Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Award, for Tar, 1983.
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1985 and 1993.
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, for Flesh and Blood, 1987.
  • Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, for Flesh and Blood, 1987.
  • Jerome Shestack Prize, The American Poetry Review, 1988, 1996.
  • Morton Dauwen Zabel Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1989.
  • Woodrow Wilson-Lila Wallace Fellow, 1992-93.
  • Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Award, for A Dream of Mind, 1992.
  • Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, 1993.
  • Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, Poetry, 1993.
  • Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Award, for The Vigil, 1997.
  • Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, for The Vigil, 1997.
  • PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, 1998.
  • Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, 1998.
  • Finalist, National Book Award, for Repair, 1999.
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, 1999
  • Weathertop Poetry Award for Repair, 2000.
  • Maurice English Award for Repair, 2000.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Award for Repair, 2000.
  • Pulitzer Prize, for Repair, 2000.
  • Pen/Albrand Memoir Award, for Misgivings, 2001.
  • National Book Award, for The Singing, 2003.
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2005.
  • Milton Kessler Poetry Prize, Binghamton University, 2012.
  • Jewish Book Prize, 2012.

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