Award Library of Congress Prize

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005)

Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2016)

National Humanities Medal (2012)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)

Orange Prize for Fiction (2009)

Newberry Library Award (2019)

Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (2021)

Chicago Tribune Literary Award (2017)

Park Kyong-ni Prize (2013)

Grawemeyer Award in Religion (2006)

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1999)

National Book Critics Circle Award (2014)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction (2008)

Ambassador Book Award (2005)

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1982)

Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011, 2013)

Dwight H. Terry Lectureship (2009)