Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
# 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. The award "is given to a person or institution who has, over time, made significant contributions to book culture." 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 :

| Year | Recipient |
| - | - |
| 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 |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| 1996 | Albert Murray |
| 1997 | Leslie Fiedler |
| 1998 | none |
| 1999 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| 1999 | Pauline Kael |
| 2000 | Barney Rosset |
| 2001 | Jason Epstein |
| 2002 | Richard Howard |
| 2003 | Studs Terkel |
| 2004 | Louis D. Rubin, Jr. |
| 2005 | Bill Henderson |
| 2006 | John Leonard |
| 2007 | Emilie Buchwald |
| 2008 | PEN American Center |
| 2009 | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 2010 | Dalkey Archive Press |
| 2011 | Robert Silvers |
| 2012 | Sandra Gilbert |
| 2012 | Susan Gubar |
| 2013 | Rolando Hinojosa-Smith |
| 2014 | Toni Morrison |
| 2015 | Wendell Berry |
| 2016 | Margaret Atwood |
| 2017 | John McPhee |
| 2018 | Arte Público Press |
| 2019 | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| 2020 | The Feminist Press at the City University of New York |
| 2021 | Percival Everett |
| 2022 | Joy Harjo |
