Awards & Winners

Joyce Carol Oates

Date of Birth 16-June-1938
Place of Birth Lockport
(Niagara County, New York, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Rosamond Smith, Lauren Kelly, Rosamond Smith, Lauren Kelly, J. C. Oates
Profession Editor, Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Author, Poet, Professor, Literary critic, Essayist
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over forty novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them, two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Oates has taught at Princeton University since 1978 and is currently the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She expects to teach her last Princeton writing seminar in the fall of 2014, and to formally retire from teaching the following July.

Awards by Joyce Carol Oates

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joyce Carol Oates.

2009


Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

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Man Booker International Prize

2008


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Sue Feder Historical Mystery The Gravedigger's Daughter

2007


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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction The Gravedigger's Daughter
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982

2006


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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2003


Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
(Literature)

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Edgar Award for Best Short Story Angel of Wrath
Volume: June

2001


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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Blonde

2000


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National Book Award for Fiction Blonde

1997


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Locus Award for Best Anthology American Gothic Tales

1995


Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Zombie

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction What I Lived For
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction What I Lived For
Locus Award for Best Collection Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque

1993


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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Black Water

1990


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National Book Award for Fiction Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

1974


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Edgar Award for Best Short Story Do with Me What You Will

1972


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National Book Award for Fiction Wonderland

1970


National Book Award for Fiction
Honored for : Them

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National Book Award for Fiction Them

1969


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National Book Award for Fiction Expensive People

1968


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National Book Award for Fiction A Garden of Earthly Delights