John Barth - Awards

Awards

  • 1956 — National Book Award finalist for The Floating Opera.
  • 1966 — National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature.
  • 1965 — The Brandeis University creative arts award in fiction.
  • 1965-66 — The Rockefeller Foundation grant in fiction.
  • 1968 — Nominated for the National Book Award for Lost in the Funhouse.
  • 1973 — Shared the National Book Award for Chimera with John Edward Williams and Augustus.
  • 1974 — Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • 1974 — Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • 1997 — F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction.
  • 1998 — Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • 1998 — PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
  • 1999 — Enoch Pratt Society's Lifetime Achievement in Letters Award.
  • 2008 — Roozi Rozegari, Iranian literature prize for best foreign work translation The Floating Opera.

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