Awards and Nominations
- 1992: Nominated National Book Award, Lost in the City
- 1993: Awarded PEN/Hemingway Award, Lost in the City
- 1994: Awarded Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, Lost in the City
- 2003: Nominated National Book Award, The Known World
- 2003: Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award, The Known World
- 2004: Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Known World
- 2005: Awarded International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Known World
- 2005: Awarded MacArthur Fellowship
- 2007: Nominated PEN/Faulkner Award, All Aunt Hagar's Children
- 2010: Awarded PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story
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