Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1981, is an annual literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle in honor of its first president, Ivan Sandrof.^[1] The award "is given to a person or institution who has, over time, made significant contributions to book culture."^[1] The Sandrof Award has also been presented as the "Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing" and the "Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters."

Recipients

Sandrof Award winners^[1]

Year	Recipient	Ref.
1982	Leslie A. Marchand
1983	none
1984	The Library of America
1985	none
1986	none
1987	Robert Giroux
1988	none
1989	James Laughlin
1990	Donald Keene
1991	none
1992	Gregory Rabassa
1993	none
1994	William Maxwell
1995	Alfred Kazin
	Elizabeth Hardwick
1996	Albert Murray
1997	Leslie Fiedler
1998	none
1999	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
	Pauline Kael
2000	Barney Rosset
2001	Jason Epstein
2002	Richard Howard
2003	Studs Terkel
2004	Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
2005	Bill Henderson	[2]
2006	John Leonard
2007	Emilie Buchwald	[3][4][5]
2008	PEN American Center	[6]
2009	Joyce Carol Oates	[7][8]
2010	Dalkey Archive Press	[9]
2011	Robert Silvers	[10]
2012	Sandra Gilbert	[11][12]
	Susan Gubar
2013	Rolando Hinojosa-Smith	[13]
2014	Toni Morrison	[14][15]
2015	Wendell Berry	[16]
2016	Margaret Atwood	[17]
2017	John McPhee	[18][19]
2018	Arte Público Press	[20][21][22]
2019	Naomi Shihab Nye	[23][24]
2020	The Feminist Press at the City University of New York	[25][26]
2021	Percival Everett	[27][28][29]
2022	Joy Harjo	[30]
2023	Judy Blume	[31][32]
2024	Sandra Cisneros	[33]

In 2021, the Sandrof Award was divided into two separate awards. The Sandrof Award continued to be given to a person for a contribution to book culture, while the Toni Morrison Achievement Award was given to an organization that met the same criteria.

The winners to date:

• 2021 Cave Canem
• 2022 City Lights
• 2023 American Library Association
• 2024 Third World Press

See also

• John Leonard Prize
• National Book Critics Circle Awards
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
• Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing