The Award Book

Top Awarded People

Name

Shortlisted

winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1954)	The Adventures of Augie March
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1957)	Seize the Day
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1960)	Henderson the Rain King
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1965)	Herzog
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1971)	Mr. Sammler's Planet
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1976)	Humboldt's Gift
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1976)

Robert A. Heinlein

winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1956)	Double Star
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1959)	Have Space Suit — Will Travel
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1960)	Starship Troopers
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1962)	Stranger in a Strange Land
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1964)	Glory Road
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1966)	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1967)	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1974)	Time Enough for Love
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1983)	Friday
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1985)	Job: A Comedy of Justice

John Updike

shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1960)	The Poorhouse Fair
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1961)	Rabbit, Run
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1963)	Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1964)	The Centaur
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1971)	Bech: A Book
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1972)	Rabbit Redux
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1980)	Too Far to Go
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1982)	Rabbit is Rich
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982)	Rabbit is Rich
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1991)	Rabbit At Rest

Lois McMaster Bujold

shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1989)	Falling Free
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1991)	The Vor Game
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1992)	Barrayar
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1995)	Mirror Dance
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1997)	Memory
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2000)	A Civil Campaign
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002)	The Curse of Chalion
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2004)	Paladin of Souls
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2011)	Cryoburn
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2013)	Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Kazuo Ishiguro

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1986)	An Artist of the Floating World
winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1989)	The Remains of the Day
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2000)	When We Were Orphans
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2005)	Never Let Me Go
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2021)	Klara and the Sun
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (1986)	An Artist of the Floating World
shortlisted	Costa Book Award for Novel (1995)	The Unconsoled
shortlisted	Costa Book Award for Novel (2000)	When We Were Orphans
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (2017)

J. M. Coetzee

winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1983)	Life & Times of Michael K
winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1999)	Disgrace
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2003)	Elizabeth Costello
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2005)	Slow Man
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2009)	Summertime
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2016)	The Schooldays of Jesus
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2007)	Slow Man
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)

William Faulkner

winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1951)	Collected Stories of William Faulkner
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1952)	Requiem for a Nun
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1955)	A Fable
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1960)	The Mansion
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1949)

José Saramago

shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (1996)	The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1998)
winner	Prémio Camões (1995)

Milton Hatoum

winner	Prêmio Oceanos (2006)	Cinzas do norte
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (1990)	Relato de um Certo Oriente
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2001)	Dois Irmãos
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2006)	Cinzas do norte
shortlisted	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2009)	Órfãos do Eldorado

Mia Couto

shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2017)	Confession of the Lioness
winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2014)
winner	Prémio Camões (2013)

Jorge Amado

winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (1959)	Gabriela, Cravo e Canela
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (1995)	A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos
winner	Prémio Camões (1994)

Gabriel García Márquez

winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1972)
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)

Czesław Miłosz

winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1978)
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1980)

João Cabral de Melo Neto

winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1992)
winner	Prémio Camões (1990)

Itamar Vieira Junior

winner	Prémio LeYa (2018)	Torto Arado
winner	Prêmio Oceanos (2020)	Torto Arado
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2020)	Torto Arado
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2024)	Salvar o fogo

Silviano Santiago

winner	Prêmio Oceanos (2015)	Mil Rosas Roubadas
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2017)	Machado
winner	Prémio Camões (2022)

Octavio Paz

winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1982)
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)

Tomas Tranströmer

winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1990)
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (2011)

Salman Rushdie

winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1981)	Midnight's Children
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1983)	Shame
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1988)	The Satanic Verses
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1995)	The Moor's Last Sigh
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2005)	Shalimar the Clown
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2008)	The Enchantress of Florence
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2019)	Quichotte
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (1988)	The Satanic Verses
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (1995)	The Moor's Last Sigh
shortlisted	Costa Book Award for Novel (2005)	Shalimar the Clown
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2007)	Shalimar the Clown
shortlisted	National Book Award for Nonfiction (2024)	Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Philip Roth

shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2000)	I Married a Communist
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1960)	Goodbye, Columbus
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1972)	My Life As a Man
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1980)	The Ghost Writer
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1984)	The Anatomy Lesson
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1987)	The Counterlife
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (1995)	Sabbath's Theater
shortlisted	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1980)	The Ghost Writer
shortlisted	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1994)	Operation Shylock: A Confession
shortlisted	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1996)	Sabbath's Theater
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1998)	American Pastoral

Hilary Mantel

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2005)	Beyond Black
winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (2009)	Wolf Hall
winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (2012)	Bring Up the Bodies
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2020)	The Mirror & the Light
shortlisted	Costa Book Award for Novel (2009)	Wolf Hall
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (2012)	Bring Up the Bodies
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (2006)	Beyond Black
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (2010)	Wolf Hall
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (2013)	Bring Up the Bodies
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (2020)	The Mirror & the Light

William Trevor

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1991)	Reading Turgenev
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2002)	The Story of Lucy Gault
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2009)	Love and Summer
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (1976)	The Children of Dynmouth
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (1983)	Fools of Fortune
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (1994)	Felicia's Journey
shortlisted	Costa Book Award for Novel (2002)	The Story of Lucy Gault
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2011)	Love and Summer
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1970)	Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1976)	The Children of Dynmouth

Percival Everett

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2022)	The Trees
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2024)	James
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2023)	The Trees
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2025)	James
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (2024)	James
shortlisted	PEN/Jean Stein Book Award (2022)	The Trees
winner	PEN/Jean Stein Book Award (2023)	Dr. No
shortlisted	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2021)	Telephone
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2025)	James

Ali Smith

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2001)	Hotel World
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2005)	The Accidental
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2014)	How to Be Both
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2017)	Autumn
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (2005)	The Accidental
winner	Costa Book Award for Novel (2014)	How to Be Both
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (2001)	Hotel World
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (2006)	The Accidental
winner	Women's Prize for Fiction (2015)	How to Be Both

Colson Whitehead

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2017)	The Underground Railroad
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2021)	The Nickel Boys
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (2016)	The Underground Railroad
shortlisted	PEN/Jean Stein Book Award (2017)	The Underground Railroad
shortlisted	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2002)	John Henry Days
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017)	The Underground Railroad
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2020)	The Nickel Boys

Toni Morrison

shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2000)	Paradise
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1972)	Sula
shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1987)	Beloved
winner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1988)	Beloved
shortlisted	Women's Prize for Fiction (1999)	Paradise
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1993)

V. S. Naipaul

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1979)	A Bend in the River
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2001)	Half a Life
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (1996)	A Way in the World
winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1971)	In a Free State
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (2001)

David Malouf

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (1993)	Remembering Babylon
winner	International Dublin Literary Award (1996)	Remembering Babylon
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2011)	Ransom
winner	Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2000)

Vernor Vinge

shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1985)	The Peace War
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1987)	Marooned in Realtime
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1993)	A Fire Upon the Deep
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2000)	A Deepness in the Sky
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2007)	Rainbows End

Connie Willis

winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1993)	Doomsday Book
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1996)	Remake
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (1999)	To Say Nothing of the Dog
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002)	Passage
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2011)	Blackout/All Clear

N. K. Jemisin

shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2011)	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2016)	The Fifth Season
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2017)	The Obelisk Gate
winner	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2018)	The Stone Sky
shortlisted	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2021)	The City We Became

Peter Matthiessen

shortlisted	National Book Award for Fiction (1966)	At Play in the Fields of the Lord
winner	National Book Award for Fiction (2008)	Shadow Country
shortlisted	National Book Award for Nonfiction (1973)	The Tree Where Man Was Born
winner	National Book Award for Nonfiction (1979)	The Snow Leopard
winner	National Book Award for Nonfiction (0)	The Snow Leopard

Nadine Gordimer

shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2001)	The Pickup
shortlisted	Booker Prize for Fiction (2006)	Get A Life
winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1974)	The Conservationist
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1991)

Chico Buarque

winner	Prêmio Oceanos (2010)	Leite Derramado
shortlisted	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2010)	Leite Derramado
winner	Prémio Camões (2019)

Orhan Pamuk

winner	International Dublin Literary Award (2003)	My Name Is Red
shortlisted	International Dublin Literary Award (2017)	A Strangeness in My Mind
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (2006)

Dalton Trevisan

winner	Prêmio Oceanos (2003)	Pico na veia
winner	Prémio Camões (2012)

Herta Müller

winner	International Dublin Literary Award (1998)	The Land of Green Plums
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (2009)

Rubem Fonseca

winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (1984)	A Grande Arte
winner	Prémio Camões (2003)

Rachel de Queiroz

winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (1993)	Memorial de Maria Moura
winner	Prémio Camões (1993)

William Golding

winner	Booker Prize for Fiction (1980)	Rites of Passage
winner	Nobel Prize in Literature (1983)

João Ubaldo Ribeiro

winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (1985)	Viva o Povo Brasileiro
winner	Prémio Camões (2008)

Bernardo Carvalho

winner	Prêmio Oceanos (2003)	Nove Noites
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2004)	Mongólia
winner	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário (2014)	Reprodução