Awards & Winners

David Sedaris

Date of Birth 26-December-1956
Place of Birth Binghamton
(Broome County, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as David Raymond Sedaris, David Raymond Sedaris
Profession Writer, Author, Comedian, Screenwriter, Humorist, Playwright
David Raymond Sedaris is an American Grammy Award-nominated humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next five essay collections, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, became New York Times Best Sellers. In 2010, he released a collection of stories, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary. In 2013, Sedaris released his latest collection of essays, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. By 2008, his books had sold seven million copies. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, and his life in France, London, and the English South Downs.

Awards by David Sedaris

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Sedaris.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album When you are engulfed in flames

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

2004


Lambda Literary Award for Humor
Honored for : Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Humor Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

2000


Lambda Literary Award for Humor
Honored for : Me Talk Pretty One Day

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Humor Me Talk Pretty One Day

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Humor Naked

1995


Obie Award for Special Citations
Honored for : One Woman Shoe

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Humor Barrel Fever