Toni Morrison

Awards & Honours

• 1977Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
• 1977National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
• 1978honorary degree from Spelman College
• 1981Langston Hughes Medal
• 1982Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• 1988American Book Awards
• 1988Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
• 1988Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• 1988Helmerich Award
• 1989Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
• 1993Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1993honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
• 1996Jefferson Lecture
• 2000National Humanities Medal
• 2003honorary doctorate from ENS
• 2004NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
• 2005Coretta Scott King Award
• 2007doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University
• 2008New Jersey Hall of Fame
• 2009Norman Mailer Prize
• 2010Carl Sandburg Literary Award
• 2011Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
• 2012Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 2013The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
• 2013PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
• 2014Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
• Knight of the Legion of Honour
• Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
• Library of Congress Living Legend
• Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
• Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors