Wendell Berry
Award Year Granting Institution
Wallace Stegner Fellowship 1958 Stanford University
Guggenheim Fellowship 1961 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Rockefeller Fellowship 1965 The Rockefeller Foundation
Arts and Letters Award 1971 American Academy of Arts and Letters
UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement 1993 University of Kentucky Libraries
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry 1994 The Sewanee Review and the University of the South
Thomas Merton Award 1999 Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice
Poets ' Prize 2000 Nicholas Roerich Museum
Lifetime Achievement Award 2003 Festival of Faiths in Louisville Kentucky
Kentuckian of the Year 2005 Kentucky Monthly
Art of Fact Award 2006 SUNY Brockport Writers Forum and M & T Bank
Premio Artusi 2008 La Città di Forlimpopoli
The Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement 2009 Fellowship of Southern Writers
The Louis Bromfield Society Award 2009 Malabar Farm Foundation and Ohio Department of Natural Resources
The National Humanities Medal 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities
The 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities
The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award 2012 Tulsa Library Trust
Russell Kirk Paideia Prize 2012 Circe Institute
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2013 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Roosevelt Institute 's Freedom Medal 2013 The Roosevelt Institute
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Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.