Awards & Winners

Peter Matthiessen

Date of Birth 22-May-1927
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist, Writer, Author
Peter Matthiessen is an American novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review and a three-time National Book Award-winner, he has also been a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction has featured nature and travel—notably The Snow Leopard -- or American Indian issues and history—notably a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. His fiction has occasionally been adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord into the 1991 film of the same name. In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, a one-volume, 890-page revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in the 1990s. According to critic Michael Dirda, "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea."

Awards by Peter Matthiessen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Matthiessen.

2008


National Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : Shadow Country

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National Book Award for Fiction Shadow Country

2002


Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2001


James Fenimore Cooper Prize
Honored for : Bone by Bone

1991


Ambassador Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : Killing Mister Watson
(Fiction)

1980


National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Honored for : The Snow Leopard

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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback) The Snow Leopard

1979


National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
Honored for : The Snow Leopard

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National Book Award for Contemporary Thought The Snow Leopard

1973


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National Book Award for The Sciences The tree where man was born

1966


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National Book Award for Fiction At play in the fields of the Lord