AWARDS

• The Lannan Literary Award in Fiction 2021

• The John Dos Passos Prize for Literature 2019

• The Harold Washington Literary Award 2018

• Guggenheim Fellowship 2002

| The Wrong End of the Telescope |

• Winner, Pen Faulkner Award 2022

| The Angel of History |

• Winner, Lambda Literary Award 2017

• Winner, Arab American Book Award 2017

• Winner, Northern California Book Award 2017

| An Unnecessary Woman |

• Winner, NCIBA Award 2014

• Winner, Prix Femina (France) 2016

• Winner, California Book Award 2014

• Winner, Arab American Book Award 2015

• Finalist, National Book Award 2014

• Finalist, National Book Critics Award, 2015

• Finalist, PEN Open Book Award, 2015

| The Hakawati |

• Winner, Rome Prize/Premio Roma (Italy) 2009

• Winner, RUSA Award (from the American Library Association) 2009

| Koolaids |

• Finalist, Lambda Literary Award 1999