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==Awards and honors== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=May 2023}} * Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Fiction Award for the Short Story, 1977. * National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1977. * The St. Lawrence Award for Fiction, best story collection of the year, 1980 (Descent of Man). * The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, 1981 ("Mungo Among the Moors," excerpt from Water Music). * National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1983. * The Paris Review's John Train Humor Prize, 1984 ("The Hector Quesadilla Story"). * Commonwealth of California, Silver Medal for Literature, 55th Annual Awards, 1986 (Greasy Lake). * Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of the 16 best books of the year, 1987 (World's End). * Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988. * [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction|PEN/Faulkner Award]], best novel of the year, 1988, for World's End. * O. Henry Award, 1988. "Sinking House," from The Atlantic Monthly. * Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Literature, best novel of the year, 57th annual awards, 1988 (World's End). * O. Henry Award, 1989. "The Ape Lady in Retirement," from The Paris Review. * Prix Passion publishers' prize, France, for best novel of the year, 1989 (Water Music). * PEN Center West Literary Prize, best short story collection of the year, 1989 (If the River Was Whiskey). * Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of the 13 best books of the year, 1989 (If the River Was Whiskey). * Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, State University of New York, 1991. * Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, for prose excellence, 1993. * Best American Stories selection, 1997. "Killing Babies," from The New Yorker. * [[Prix Médicis étranger|Prix Médicis Étranger]], Paris, for the best foreign novel of the year, 1997 (The Tortilla Curtain). * O.Henry Award, 1999. "The Underground Gardens," from The New Yorker. * [[PEN/Malamud Award|The Bernard Malamud Prize in Short Fiction]] from the [[PEN/Faulkner Foundation]], 1999, for T.C. Boyle Stories, the Collected Stories. * O.Henry Award, 2001. "The Love of My Life," from The New Yorker. * Southern California Booksellers' Association Award for best fiction title of the year, 2002, for After the Plague. * National Book Award Finalist, Drop City, 2003. * O. Henry Award, 2003. "Swept Away," from The New Yorker. * Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review, one of 9 best books of the year, 2003. * Best American Stories selection, 2004. "Tooth and Claw," from The New Yorker. * Founder's Award, Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, 2006. * Evil Companions Literary Award, Denver Public Library, 2007. * Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal for Literature, 76th annual awards, 2007 (Talk Talk). * Audie Prize, 2007, for best audio performance by a writer (The Tortilla Curtain). * Ross Macdonald Award for body of work by a California writer, 2007. * National Magazine Award, 2007 ("Wild Child," from McSweeney's). * Best American Stories selection, 2007 ("Balto," from The Paris Review). * Best American Stories selection, 2008 ("Admiral," from Harper's). * Induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2009. * [[Rea Award for the Short Story]], 2014. * [[The Kenyon Review#Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement|Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement]], 2019.
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