Select Awards and Honors
Winner:
- 1967: O. Henry Award — "In the Region of Ice"
- 1968: M. L. Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters — A Garden of Earthly Delights
- 1970: National Book Award for Fiction — them
- 1973: O. Henry Award — "The Dead"
- 1990: Rea Award for the Short Story
- 1996: Bram Stoker Award for Novel — Zombie
- 1996: PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story
- 2002: Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- 2003: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (The Kenyon Review)
- 2005: Prix Femina Etranger — The Falls
- 2006: Chicago Tribune Literary Prize (Chicago Tribune)
- 2006: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount Holyoke College
- 2009: Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement, NBCC
- 2010: National Humanities Medal
- 2011: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
- 2011: World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction — Fossil-Figures
- 2012: Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Oregon State University
Nominated:
- 1963ff O. Henry Award — Special Award for Continuing Achievement (1970), five Second Prize (1964 to 1989), two First Prize (above) among 29 nominations
- 1968: National Book Award for Fiction — A Garden of Earthly Delights
- 1969: National Book Award — Expensive People
- 1972: National Book Award — Wonderland
- 1990: National Book Award — Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
- 1992: National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction — Black Water
- 1993: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Black Water
- 1995: Pulitzer Prize — What I Lived For
- 1995: PEN/Faulkner Award — What I Lived For
- 2000: National Book Award — Blonde
- 2001: Pulitzer Prize — Blonde
- 2007: National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction — The Gravedigger's Daughter
- 2007: National Book Critics Circle Award, Memoir/Autobiography — The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982
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