Toni Morrison

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal

PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

Carl Sandburg Literary Award

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children

Norman Mailer Prize

New Jersey Hall of Fame

doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University

Coretta Scott King Award

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

Love

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

Love

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children

honorary doctorate from ENS

National Humanities Medal

Dublin Literary Award

Paradise

Jefferson Lecture

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII

Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service

American Book Awards

Beloved

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Beloved

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Beloved

Helmerich Award

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Beloved

National Book Award for Fiction

Beloved

Ohio Women's Hall of Fame

Langston Hughes Medal

honorary degree from Spelman College

Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Song of Solomon

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Song of Solomon

National Book Award for Fiction

Sula

Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford

Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva

Knight of the Legion of Honour

Library of Congress Living Legend