Award TransAtlantic Award

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)

National Humanities Medal (2014)

Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature (2000)

DSC Prize for Literature (2015)

PEN/Malamud Award (2017)

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2008)

M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award (2000)

Asian American Literary Award (2009)

Fine Arts Work Center fellowship (Provincetown)