Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

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The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1981, is an annual literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle in honor of its first president, Ivan Sandrof. [1] The award "is given to a person or institution who has, over time, made significant contributions to book culture." [1] The Sandrof Award has also been presented as the "Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing" and the "Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters."

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Recipients

Sandrof Award winners [1]
YearRecipientRef.
1982 Leslie A. Marchand
1983none
1984 The Library of America
1985none
1986none
1987 Robert Giroux
1988none
1989 James Laughlin
1990 Donald Keene
1991none
1992 Gregory Rabassa
1993none
1994 William Maxwell
1995 Alfred Kazin
Elizabeth Hardwick
1996 Albert Murray
1997 Leslie Fiedler
1998none
1999 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pauline Kael
2000 Barney Rosset
2001 Jason Epstein
2002 Richard Howard
2003 Studs Terkel
2004 Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
2005 Bill Henderson
2006 John Leonard
2007 Emilie Buchwald [2] [3] [4]
2008 PEN American Center [5]
2009 Joyce Carol Oates [6] [7]
2010 Dalkey Archive Press [8]
2011 Robert Silvers [9]
2012 Sandra Gilbert [10] [11]
Susan Gubar
2013 Rolando Hinojosa-Smith [12]
2014 Toni Morrison [13] [14]
2015 Wendell Berry [15]
2016 Margaret Atwood [16]
2017 John McPhee [17] [18]
2018 Arte Público Press [19] [20] [21]
2019 Naomi Shihab Nye [22] [23]
2020 The Feminist Press at the City University of New York [24] [25]
2021 Percival Everett [26] [27] [28]
2022 Joy Harjo
2023 Judy Blume [29]

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