Man Booker Prize finalist in 2013 Governor General Awards finalist in the French translation category for Poisson d’avril, Boreal Editions, 2014 The Canadian collection Tumbleweed was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2017 Recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship (2001), the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (1999), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fiction (1999), the Whiting Writer's Award for fiction and nonfiction (1997) Received numerous grants for travel and readings throughout the U.S., Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Israel, and other international markets