Ernest J. Gaines - Awards

Awards

• The Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature (2012)
• Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (2001)
• Chevalier (Knight) of the Order of Art and Letters (France) (2000)
• The American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature (2000)
• The National Governors’ Arts Award (2000)
• The Louisiana Writer Award (2000)
• National Humanities Medal (2000)
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1993)
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellow (1993)
• Dos Passos Prize (1993)
• Louisiana Humanist of the Year (1993)
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation fellow (1971)
• National Endowment for the Arts grant (1967)
• Wallace Stegner fellow (1957)