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Joyce Carol Oates

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American author (born 1938)

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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.

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2020Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
2016Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
2012New Jersey Hall of Fame
2012Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
2011grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro du roman étranger
2011World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
2011Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
2010Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature
2010National Humanities Medal
2010Lucien Barrière Literary Award
2009Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2007Humanist of the Year
2005Prix Femina étranger
2003Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
2002Helmerich Award
2002Carl Sandburg Literary Award
2001Oprah's Book Club
1996PEN/Malamud Award
1995Bram Stoker Award for Novel
1993Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
1990Rea Award for the Short Story
1988St. Louis Literary Award
1970National Book Award
1967Guggenheim Fellowship
1967O. Henry Award
Pushcart Prize
Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
honorary doctor of Brandeis University
honorary doctor of the Northwestern University
Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction

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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).

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Born 1938 · age 88
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