Lifetime Achievement Awards
Each year, the Conference on Christianity and Literature board presents a lifetime achievement award to an individual who has enriched the understanding of the relation of Christianity and literature and contributed significantly to the dialogue among Christian scholars and between Christian scholars and the secular community of professionals.
A candidate for the lifetime achievement award must have produced a significant and mature body of written work over a substantial number of years and be recognized and respected by the larger professional community for scholarship or creative writing. Special consideration may be given to candidates who are associated with a Christian or Jewish religious community.
Winners of the lifetime achievement award include:
2008
Marilynne Robinson
2007
Frederick Buechner
2006
John Updike
2005
Wendell Berry
2004
Robert Coles
2003
David Lyle Jeffrey
2002
Denis Donoghue
2001
Paul Ricoeur
2000
Doris Betts
1999
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and Louis Lohr Martz
1998
Czeslaw Milosz
1997
Rene Girard
1996
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1995
Wayne Booth
1994
Denise Levertov and Owen Barfield
1993
Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
1992
Cleanth Brooks and Richard Wilbur
Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)