The following is a list of awards received by writer Cormac McCarthy:
Awards
- 1959, 1960 Ingram-Merrill awards
- 1965 Traveling Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel for The Orchard Keeper[1]
- 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing
- 1981 MacArthur Fellowship
- 1992 National Book Award for Fiction[2] and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses[3]
- 1996 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Crossing
- 2000 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Cities of the Plain
- 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and Believer Book Award for The Road
- 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road[4]
- 2007 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for No Country for Old Men
- 2008 Maltese Falcon Award, Japan, for No Country for Old Men
- 2008 Premio Ignotus for The Road
- 2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Road
- 2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, for a career whose writing "possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature."[5]
- 2012 Best of the James Tait Black, shortlist, The Road[6][7]
See also
References
- ^ Woodward, Richard (May 17, 1998). "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
- ^
"National Book Awards – 1992". National Book Foundation; retrieved March 28, 2012.
(With acceptance speech by McCarthy and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) - ^ "National Book Critics Circle: awards". bookcritics.org. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category, Pulitzer.org; retrieved March 28, 2012.
- ^ Flood, Alison (May 7, 2009). "Cormac McCarthy wins lifetime achievement award". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
- ^ Russell Leadbetter. "Book prize names six of the best in search for winner". Herald Scotland. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
- ^ "Authors in running for 'best of best' James Tait Black award". BBC News. Retrieved July 14, 2017.