Awards & Winners

Walker Percy

Date of Birth 28-May-1916
Place of Birth Birmingham
(Alabama, United States of America, Jefferson County, Area code 205)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist, Philosopher, Author
Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. was a Southern author from Covington, Louisiana, whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith.

Awards by Walker Percy

Check all the awards nominated and won by Walker Percy.

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) The Second Coming

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The Second Coming
National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover) The Second Coming

1972


Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Love in the Ruins

1967


Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Last Gentleman

1962


National Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : The Moviegoer

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Moviegoer