PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for
American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at
the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.
He twice won the National Book Award and the National
Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner
Award three times. In 2005
The Plot Against America received
the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding
historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”
Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:
in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities
Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth
recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.
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