acclaim. Her poetry volume, Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra, (1987), won the Carl Sandburg Award in 1988. In 1994, Chase-Riboud published Roman Egyptien, poetry written in French. In 2014, she published Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released: Collected and New Poems 1974–2011. She contributed the poem "Ode to My Grandfather at the Somme 1918" to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Marriage and family In Paris, Chase met Marc Riboud, a photographer who was part of the Magnum group. They married in 1961 on Christmas Day in a church. The couple had two sons together, David Charles (b. 1964) and Alexis Karol Riboud (b. 1967). They traveled extensively in Russia, India, Greece and North Africa. Years later they divorced. In 1981, Chase-Riboud married her second husband, Sergio Tosi, an art publisher and expert. Legacy and honors 1957: John Hay Whitney Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1979: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Excellence in Fiction by an American woman, for Sally Hemings. 1988: Carl Sandburg Prize for Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra 1993: honorary Doctorate of Letters from Muhlenberg College. 1995: James Van Dar Zee Award for Lifetime Achievement 1996: honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Connecticut. 1996, knighted by the French Government and awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. 1996: commissioned by the United States General Services Administration for the memorial, Africa Rising, at 240 Broadway, site of the newly designated African Burial Ground National Monument, next to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan. 2004: Nominated Hurston-Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) for Hottentot Venus 2005: "Best Fiction Book of 2004" by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for Hottentot Venus 2007: College Art Association Women's Caucus for Art lifetime achievement award. 2007: Alain Locke Award from Detroit Institute of Arts 2020: "Anonymous Was A Woman" from the Rockefeller Foundation 2021: "Laureate of Prix d'Honneur" from AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) 2021: "Laureate of Grand Prix Artistique de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca" 2022: knighted by the French Government and awarded the "Legion d'Honneur." Selected works Sculptures Last Supper (1958) Bullfighter (1958) Malcolm X (1970) Why Did We Leave Zanibar (1971) Confession for Myself (1973) Cleopatra's Cape (1973) Africa Rising (1998) Mao's Organ (2008) Novels Sally Hemings: A Novel (1979). /reprinted in paperback, 2009 Valide: A Novel