Awards and Other Recognition
- 1988 Whiting Writers' Award
- 1996 Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists
- 2001 National Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2001 New York Times Best Books of the Year
- 2001 Salon Book Award (Fiction)
- 2001 New York Times Best Books of the Year for The Corrections
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction)
- 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist
- 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (short list)
- 2012 Carlos Fuentes medal.
In January 2011, The Observer named him as one of "20 activists, filmmakers, writers, politicians and celebrities who will be setting the global environmental agenda in the coming year".
The first international academic symposium soley dedicated to Franzen's work, "Jonathan Franzen: Identity and Crisis of the American Novel", is scheduled to take place at the University of Córdoba, Spain, 18–19 April 2013.
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