A Note on the Nobel Prize
It has been reported numerous times in books, and in newspaper and journal articles, that JCO has been nominated or has been on the "short list" several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I have yet to locate a report that bothers to cite a source for their information.
According to the Nobel web site, nominations are kept secret for 50 years.
Of course a nominator could have leaked the information about their nomination, but until the JCO Nobel reports can be verified, journalists and scholars might more accurately refer to them as rumors, or not refer to them at all.
Awards For Individual Works
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
2001 finalist: Blonde
1990 finalist: Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart
1971 finalist: Wonderland
1970 winner: them
JCO's Acceptance Speech
1969 finalist: Expensive People
1968 finalist: A Garden of Earthly Delights
PULITZER PRIZE
2001 finalist: Blonde
1995 finalist: What I Lived For
1993 finalist: Black Water
PEN / FAUKNER AWARD
1995 finalist: What I Lived For
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
1992 finalist: Black Water
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS
2007 nominee: Fiction, Playboy (May 2006), "Suicide Watch"
2006 winner: Fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall), "Smother"
2006 finalist: Fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter), "So Help Me God"
2006 finalist: Fiction, Zoetrope: All-Story, "High Lonesome"
2003 finalist: Fiction, The Georgia Review, "Three Girls"
2002 finalist: Fiction, Harper's Magazine, "Curly Red"
1993 finalist: Fiction, Playboy, "The Premonition"
1985 finalist: Fiction, Esquire, "Raven's Wing"
1983 finalist: Fiction, Esquire, "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"
1978 finalist: Fiction, Mademoiselle, "The Tattoo"
PRIX FEMNIMA ÉTRANGER
2005 winner: The Falls
OTHER AWARDS
2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Young Adult Fiction, finalist: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
1996 Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize: Zombie
1996 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a novel: Zombie
1990 Heidemann Award for one-act plays: "Tone Clusters," co-winner
1968 Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters: A Garden of Earthly Delights
1959 Mademoiselle college fiction award: "In the Old World"
Works Included In Award Anthologies
PRIZE STORIES : THE O HENRY AWARDS
2001: "The Girl with the Blackened Eye"
1996 : "Mark of Satan"
1995 : "You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home"
1993 : "Goose-Girl"
1992 : "Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time"
1991 : "The Swimmers"
1990 : "Heat"
1989 : 2ND PRIZE : "House Hunting"
1988 : "Yarrow"
1987 : "Ancient Airs, Voices"
1986 : SPECIAL AWARD FOR CONTINUING ACHIEVEMENT : "Master Race"
1985 : "The Seasons"
1983 : 2ND PRIZE : "My Warszawa"
1982 : "The Man Whom Women Adored"
1981 : "Mutilated Woman"
1979 : "In the Autumn of the Year"
1978 : "The Tattoo"
1976 : "Blood-Swollen Landscape"
1973 : 1ST PRIZE : "The Dead"
1972 : 2ND PRIZE : "Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate!"
1971 : "The Children"
1970 : SPECIAL AWARD FOR CONTINUING ACHIEVEMENT :
"Unmailed, Unwritten Letters"
"How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again"
"It is a great pleasure to announce that the publishers of the series have established this year a new prize in connection with it: a Special Award for continuing achievement by a writer of established reputation. The award will be made at the discretion of the editor at such times as seem appropriate; and I am very pleased that it should be given for the first time to Joyce Carol Oates, a gifted writer whose achievements and reputation are a part of the history of the American short story in the 1960s." —William Abrahams
1969 : 2ND PRIZE : "Accomplished Desires"
1968 : "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
1967 : 1ST PRIZE : "In the Region of Ice"
1965 : "First Views of the Enemy"
1964 : "Stigmata"
1963 : "The Fine White Mist of Winter"
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
2005 : "The Cousins"
1996 : "Ghost Girls"
1992 : "Is Laughter Contagious?"
1991 : "American, Abroad"
1985 : "Raven's Wing"
1984 : "Nairobi"
1982 : "Theft"
1981 : "Presque Isle"
1978 : "The Translation"
1977 : "Gay"
1973 : "Silkie"
1970 : "How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again"
1969 : "By the River"
1967 : "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (This volume dedicated to Joyce Carol Oates)
1965 : "First Views of the Enemy"
1964 : "Upon the Sweeping Flood"
1963 : "The Fine White Mist of Winter
THE BEST LITTLE MAGAZINE FICTION
1971 : "Through the Looking Glass"
1970 : "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters"
THE PUSHCART PRIZE
XXVIII : "Three Girls" (fiction)
XXVII : "The Instructor" (fiction)
XXV : "The Sharpshooter" (fiction)
XXIII : "Faithless" (fiction)
XX : "The Undesirable Table" (fiction)
XVI : "The Hair" (fiction)
XIV : "Party" (fiction)
XII : "Against Nature" (nonfiction)
VIII : "Notes on Failure" (nonfiction)
VII : "Detente" (fiction)
I : "The Halucination" (fiction)
THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR
Twentieth Annual Collection, 2007 : "Landfill"
Eighteenth Annual Collection, 2005 : "Stripping"
Eleventh Annual Collection, 1998 : "The Sky-Blue Ball"
Ninth Annual Collection, 1996 : " "
Eighth Annual Collection, 1995 : "Brothers"
Sixth Annual Collection, 1993 : "Martyrdom"
Fourth Annual Collection, 1991 : "Ladies and Gentlemen:"
Third Annual Collection, 1990 : "Family"
First Annual Collection, 1988 : "Haunted"
HORROR: THE BEST OF THE YEAR
2007 : "Babysitter"
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR
15th (2004) : "The Haunting"
THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS
2000 : "They All Just Went Away" : (The Best American Essays of the Century)
1996 : "They All Just Went Away"
1991 : "Joyce Carol Oates edited this volume."
THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY
1991 : "Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942"
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS
1993-1994 : The Interview
1991-1992 : Tone Clusters
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES
2006 : "So Help Me God"
2005 : Joyce Carol Oates edited this volume.
2004 : "Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi"
2003 : "The Skull"
2002 : "High School Sweetheart"
2001 : "The Girl with the Blackened Eye"
1999 : "Secret, Silent"
1998 : "Faithless"
1997 : "Will You Always Love Me?"
BEST MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES
1993 : "The Model"
PERSONAL AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
2006 Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters, Bucknell University
2006 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement
2004 Fairfax Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts
2003 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
2003 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (Literature)
2002 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
2000 Honorary Doctorate Degree from Syracuse University
2000 Honorary Doctorate Degree from Northwestern University
1998 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature; administered by the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
1997 Honorary Degree from Rutgers University: Doctor of Humane Letters
1996 PEN / Malamud Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Short Story
1994 Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement
1992 Honorary Degree from the University of Michigan: Doctor of Humane Letters
1990 Bobst Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fiction
1990 Alan Swallow Award for fiction
1990 Rhea Award for the short story
1988 St. Louis Literary Award
1975 Lotos Club Award of Merit
1967 Guggenheim fellowship
1966, 1968 National Endowment for the Arts grants
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