2005: Ambassador Book Award for Gilead 2006: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion 2008: National Book Award finalist for Home 2008: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction for Home 2009: Orange Prize for Fiction for Home 2011: Man Booker International Prize nominee 2012: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Brown University 2012: National Humanities Medal for "grace and intelligence in writing" 2013: Man Booker International Prize nominee 2013: Park Kyong-ni Prize 2014: National Book Critics Circle Award for Lila 2014: National Book Award finalist for Lila 2015: Man Booker Prize longlist for Lila 2016: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and Dayton Literary Peace Prize References External links Recognitions by: Marilynne Robinson on her opinion of Marcel Proust, PEN American Center Marilynne Robinson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1943 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists Academics of the University of Kent American Congregationalists American women novelists Pembroke College in Brown University alumni Brown University alumni Christian novelists Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Writers from Iowa City, Iowa Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners University of Iowa faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty University of Washington alumni Novelists from Idaho People from Sandpoint, Idaho National Humanities Medal recipients American women essayists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award winners 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners Novelists from Massachusetts Novelists from Iowa American women academics Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters