Alexie - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

1992

• National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship

1993

• PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction for the story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

1994

• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award

1996

• American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation) for Reservation Blues
• Granta Magazine: Twenty Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40
• New York Times Notable Book for Indian Killer
• People Magazine: Best of Pages

1999

• The New Yorker: 20 Writers for the 21st Century

2001

• PEN/Malamud Award

2007

• National Book Award, Young People's Literature, for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2009

• American Library Association Odyssey Award as the year's "best audiobook for children or young adults", read by Alexie (Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, LLC, 2008, ISBN 1-4361-2490-5)

2010

• PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances
• Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award
• Puterbaugh Award ", the first American Puterbaugh fellow
• California Young Reader Medal for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian