Editing Jonathan Franzen (section)

== Awards and honors ==

=== Honors ===

* 1981 [[Fulbright Scholarship]] to Germany<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan Franzen – Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981 |url=https://eca.state.gov:443/fulbright/video/jonathan-franzen-fulbright-student-germany-1981/transcript |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218030908/http://eca.state.gov/fulbright/video/jonathan-franzen-fulbright-student-germany-1981/transcript |archive-date=December 18, 2012 |access-date=June 3, 2015 |work=state.gov}}</ref>
*1988 [[Whiting Awards|Whiting Award]]
*1996 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]
*2000 [[Berlin Prize]] (American Academy in Berlin)
*2012 Carlos Fuentes Medal<ref>{{cite news |author=Alejandro Alvarado |date=November 25, 2012 |title=Dan medalla Carlos Fuentes a Franzen |trans-title=Carlos Fuentes medal given to Franzen |url=http://www.reforma.com/cultura/articulo/680/1359484/?Titulo=dan-medalla-carlos-fuentes-a-franzen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305153518/https://www.reforma.com/aplicacioneslibre/preacceso/articulo/default.aspx?__rval=1&urlredirect=https://www.reforma.com/cultura/articulo/680/1359484/?Titulo=dan-medalla-carlos-fuentes-a-franzen&referer=--7d616165662f3a3a6262623b6770737a6778743b767a783a-- |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |access-date=November 25, 2012 |newspaper=Reforma.com |publisher=Grupo Reforma |language=es}}</ref> (Inaugural award)
*2015 Budapest Grand Prize<ref>{{cite web |title=22nd International Book Festival Budapest |url=http://www.konyvfesztival.com/2015/kozonsegnek/index_angol.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411021042/http://www.konyvfesztival.com/2015/kozonsegnek/index_angol.html |archive-date=April 11, 2015 |access-date=June 3, 2015 |work=konyvfesztival.com}}</ref>
* 2015 Euronatur Award for outstanding commitment to nature conservation in Europe<ref>{{cite web |date=December 27, 2017 |title=Euronatur Award |url=https://www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-do/campaigns-and-initiatives/euronatur-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228000219/https://www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-do/campaigns-and-initiatives/euronatur-award/ |archive-date=December 28, 2017 |access-date=December 27, 2017 |work=euronatur.org}}</ref>
*2017 Frank Schirrmacher Preis<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sedlmaier |first=Tobias |date=May 10, 2017 |title=Jonathan Franzen ausgezeichnet {{!}} NZZ |url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/frank-schirrmacher-preis-jonathan-franzen-ausgezeichnet-ld.1291312 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624040222/https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/frank-schirrmacher-preis-jonathan-franzen-ausgezeichnet-ld.1291312 |archive-date=June 24, 2018 |access-date=June 23, 2018 |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=de-CH |issn=0376-6829}}</ref>
*2022 [[Thomas Mann Prize]]<ref name="Zeitung 2022">{{cite web |date=June 10, 2022 |title=Thomas-Mann-Preis 2022 geht an US-Erzähler Franzen |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/literatur-luebeck-thomas-mann-preis-2022-geht-an-us-erzaehler-franzen-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-220610-99-618867 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610183234/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/literatur-luebeck-thomas-mann-preis-2022-geht-an-us-erzaehler-franzen-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-220610-99-618867 |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |access-date=June 10, 2022 |website=[[Süddeutsche.de]] |language=de |agency=dpa}}</ref>

=== Literary awards ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year 
!Novel!! Award !! Category !! Result !! {{Abbr|Ref|Reference}}.
|-
! rowspan="5" | 2001
| rowspan="11" |''[[The Corrections]]''
| [[Literary Review#Bad Sex in Fiction Award|Bad Sex in Fiction Award]]|| — || {{sho}} || 
|-
| [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize]] || [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{sho}} || 
|-
| [[National Book Award]] || [[National Book Award for Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{won}} || <ref name="nba2001" />
|-
| [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] || Fiction ||
|
|-
| [[Salon.com|Salon Book Award]]|| Fiction || {{won}} ||
|-
! rowspan="5" | 2002
| [[Audie Award]] || Fiction, Abridged || {{won}} || 
|-
| [[Indies Choice Book Awards]] || Adult Fiction || {{sho|Honor Book}} ||
|-
| [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] || Fiction || {{won}} || 
|-
| [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]] || — || {{sho}} || 
|-
| [[Pulitzer Prize]] || [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Fiction]]|| {{sho|Finalist}} || 
|-
! 2003
| [[International Dublin Literary Award]] || — || {{sho}} || 
|}

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*2010 [[British Book Awards|Galaxy National Book Awards]], International Author of the Year, ''Freedom''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/international-author-of-the-year/|title=International Author of the Year|work=National Book Awards 2014|access-date=June 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216032108/http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/international-author-of-the-year/|archive-date=December 16, 2012}}</ref>
*2010 [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize]] (Fiction) finalist (for ''[[Freedom (Franzen novel)|Freedom]]'')
*2010 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] finalist (for ''[[Freedom (Franzen novel)|Freedom]]'')
*2010 [[Salon Book Award]] (Fiction) for ''[[Freedom (Franzen novel)|Freedom]]''
*2011 [[Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize]] for [[Freedom (Franzen novel)|''Freedom'']]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chicagohumanities.org/events/2011/tech-knowledge/2011-chicago-tribune-heartland-prize-winners|title=2011 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners {{!}} Jonathan Franzen {{!}} Isabel Wilkerson {{!}} Chicago Humanities Festival|website=chicagohumanities.org|language=en|access-date=July 12, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712053352/https://chicagohumanities.org/events/2011/tech-knowledge/2011-chicago-tribune-heartland-prize-winners|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2011 John Gardner Award (Fiction) for [[Freedom (Franzen novel)|''Freedom'']]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writers/gardner-past-award-winners.html|title=John Gardner Fiction Book Award Past Winners - English, General Literature and Rhetoric {{!}} Binghamton University|website=English, General Literature and Rhetoric - Binghamton University|language=en-US|access-date=July 12, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712053711/https://www.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writers/gardner-past-award-winners.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2013 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Criticism) shortlist for ''The Kraus Project''<ref>{{cite web |date=January 14, 2014 |title=Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 |url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014055/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |archive-date=January 15, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2014 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle}}</ref>

'''Honors and other recognition'''
*1996 [[Granta#Granta Best of Young American Novelists|Granta's Best of Young American Novelists]]
*2001 [[Oprah's Book Club]] Selection (for ''[[The Corrections]]'')
*2001 [[The New York Times Book Review#Best Books of the Year and Notable Books|The New York Times Best Books of the Year]] for ''[[The Corrections]]''
*2009 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor [[American Academy in Berlin]]
*2010 [[Oprah's Book Club]] selection (for [[Freedom (Franzen novel)|''Freedom'']])
*2010 ''[[The New York Times]]'' 100 Notable Books of 2010 list (for ''[[Freedom (Franzen novel)|Freedom]]'')
*2010 [[The New York Times Book Review#Best Books of the Year and Notable Books|The New York Times Best Books of the Year]] (for [[Freedom (Franzen novel)|''Freedom'']])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/10-best-books-of-2010.html|title=The 10 Best Books of 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 2010|access-date=June 23, 2018|language=en|archive-date=February 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208064918/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/10-best-books-of-2010.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2010 Elected to the [[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Akademie der Kunste]], Berlin<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/?we_objectID=55154|title=Franzen|access-date=June 23, 2018|language=de-DE|archive-date=June 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624035707/https://www.adk.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/?we_objectID=55154|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2011 Named one of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']]'s [[Time 100]]<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066105,00.html|title=The 2011 TIME 100 - TIME|last=Lewis|first=Michael|date=April 21, 2011|magazine=Time|access-date=June 23, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X|archive-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709000430/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066105,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*2012 Elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/franzen-chabon-and-lahiri-named-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters/ | work=The New York Times | first=Jennifer | last=Schuessler | title=Franzen, Chabon and Lahiri Named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters | date=March 9, 2012 | access-date=December 3, 2012 | archive-date=July 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724165818/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/franzen-chabon-and-lahiri-named-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
*2012 Elected to the French ''[[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]''
*In January 2011, ''[[The Observer]]'' named him as one of "20 activists, filmmakers, writers, politicians and celebrities who will be setting the global environmental agenda in the coming year".<ref>{{cite news|first=Lucy|last=Siegle|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/16/green-power-list-top-20|title=Green giants: the eco power list|work=The Observer|location=London|date=January 16, 2011|access-date=December 11, 2016|archive-date=December 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229025305/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/16/green-power-list-top-20|url-status=live}}</ref>
*On May 21, 2011, Franzen delivered the [[commencement address]] at [[Kenyon College]] to the class of 2011.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/oh-the-places-youll-go-jonathan-franzen-at-kenyon|title=Oh the Places You'll Go: Jonathan Franzen at Kenyon|date=June 10, 2011|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=June 3, 2015|archive-date=August 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824042127/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/oh-the-places-youll-go-jonathan-franzen-at-kenyon|url-status=live}}</ref>
* On June 16, 2012, Franzen delivered the commencement address at [[Cowell College]], [[UC Santa Cruz]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://cowell.ucsc.edu/news-events/2011-12/grad-2012-franzen.html| access-date=June 3, 2015| title=Cowell Commencement 2012 Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Franzen| archive-date=December 3, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203053715/https://cowell.ucsc.edu/news-events/2011-12/grad-2012-franzen.html| url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2013 [[Welt-Literaturpreis]]<ref>{{cite news |author=Richard Kämmerlings |date=October 4, 2013 |title=Jonathan Franzen erhält den "Welt"-Literaturpreis |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article120638234/Jonathan-Franzen-erhaelt-den-Welt-Literaturpreis.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927202734/https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article120638234/Jonathan-Franzen-erhaelt-den-Welt-Literaturpreis.html |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2013 |work=[[Die Welt]]}}</ref>
*The first international academic symposium solely dedicated to Franzen's work took place at Glasgow University, UK, March 22, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/50190|title=Jonathan Franzen and Contemporary Realisms Friday 22nd March – cfp.english.upenn.edu|work=upenn.edu|access-date=June 3, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042923/http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/50190|url-status=live}}</ref> Another one, "Jonathan Franzen: Identity and Crisis of the American Novel", was scheduled to take place at the University of Córdoba, Spain, April 18–19, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46135|title=Jonathan Franzen. International Symposium. Córdoba, Spain, April 2013 – cfp.english.upenn.edu|work=upenn.edu|access-date=June 3, 2015|archive-date=October 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016053346/http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46135|url-status=live}}</ref>