Gjertrud Schnackenberg - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Schnackenberg has been awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and the Rome Prize in Creative Literature from the American Academy in Rome, as well as fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts, The Radcliffe Institute, and The Guggenheim Foundation. Today, she travels around the world reading her poetry in public, university, and conference settings.

• 2011: Heavenly Questions wins the 2011 International Griffin Poetry Prize
• 2001: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry
• 2000: The Throne of Labdacus named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
• 1998: American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards, Rome Prize in Literature
• 1984–1985: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• 1974 and 1975: Glascock Prize from Mount Holyoke College