Accolades
Jennifer Clement: Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression, 2023 in honor of both literature and work in defense of freedom of expression. The distinction is jointly awarded by the Brussels University Alliance VUB and ULB and in partnership with the European Commission, European Endowment for Democracy and UNESCO among others. Other laureates include Svetlana Alexievich, Zhang Zhan, Ahmet Altan, Daphne Caruana Galizia and Raif Badawi, among others.
Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression in honor of both literature and work in defense of freedom of expression. The distinction is jointly awarded by the Brussels University Alliance VUB and ULB and in partnership with the European Commission, European Endowment for Democracy and UNESCO among others. Other laureates include Svetlana Alexievich, Zhang Zhan, Ahmet Altan, Daphne Caruana Galizia and Raif Badawi, among others.
PEN International Emerita President 2021 to present
PEN International President 2015 to 2021
PEN Mexico Emerita President 2013 to present
Curatorial Board Member of the Hermitage Artist Retreat 2019 to present
Advisory Board Member of the Santa Maddalena Foundation 2015 to present
Fellowship in Mexico’s “Sistema Nacional de Creadores”, FONCA. 2012 to present
President of PEN Mexico 2009 to 2013
Lectio Magistralis “Poetry and Errors” given for 2020 Premio Gregor von Rezzori. Florence, Italy, 2020
National Book Award for Fiction 2018 finalist (Gun Love)
TIME's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2018 (Gun Love)
Oprah Book Selection 2018 (Gun Love)
Aspen Literary Awards finalist 2018 (Gun Love)
A New York Times Editor's Choice Book 2018(Gun Love)
An Amazon Best Book of the Month 2018 (Gun Love)
A Los Angeles Review of Books Tom’s Book Club Selection 2018 (Gun Love)
Distinguished Alumna Award, Kingswood Cranbrook, 2018
Commencement Speaker, New York University, 2017
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2016
HIP Award for contribution to Latino Communities by the Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP)Organization, Los Angeles, California, 2015
City of Asylum Resident, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2015
The Sara Curry Humanitarian Award, 2014 (other honorees include Gloria Steinem, Natacha Weiss, director of Refugees International, and Margarita Lopez, politician and champion of LGBT rights).
Santa Maddalena Fellowship, 2014
NPR’s Best Book of 2015 in seven categories, 2015 for Widow Basquiat
A New Statesman Book of the Year, picked by the Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro
Grand Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE(sponsored by ELLE Magazine, the French Ministry of Education and Maison des écrivains et de la littérature) France, 2015(Prayers for the Stolen)
Sélection PAGE DES LIBRAIRES (Prayers for the Stolen), France, 2015 (Prayers for the Stolen)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist, USA, 2015 (Prayers for the Stolen)
Community Book Connection Program Community, College of Baltimore County, Essex - Prayers for the Stolen: selected novel for the 2015-2106
The Irish Times Best Books List 2014(Prayers for the Stolen)
First selection of National Reading Group Month Great Group Reads (Prayers for the Stolen), 2014
New York Times Editor's Choice, March 2014(Prayers for the Stolen)
Short list Prix Femina, Paris, France, 2014(Prayers for the Stolen)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Literature, 2012
Pushcart Prize nomination 2011
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work (Literary Movements), entry on Page 68, Facts on File, 2010 (Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work is an invaluable guide to the work of English-language fiction writers born since 1960. Coverage includes some of the most vital and appealing writers working today, such as Chang-rae Lee, Monica Ali, Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Clement and Dave Eggers. Containing more than 200 entries written by literary scholars, this resource provides a comprehensive overview of the best writers and works of the current English-Speaking literary world).
The Sandburg-Auden-Stein Poet-in-Residence, Olivet College, 2011
Writer-in-Residence PEN Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Belgium, 2010
Pushcart Prize nomination 2009
The Thornton Writer-in-Residence, Lynchburg College, VA, Fall 2009
Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow 2007-2008 (awarded by The MacDowell Colony)
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2007
U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture (Conaculta/Fonca/Bancomer/The Rockefeller Foundation) grant in support of my poetry organization: The San Miguel Poetry Week, 2000
Residency granted by the Goethe Institute and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2004
Finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002, UK (A True Story Based on Lies).
The Canongate Prize for New Writing 2001, UK (judged by The Herald, The Sunday Herald, Waterstone's, Channel Four BBC, and Canongate Books)
The Bookseller's Choice List, UK, (Widow Basquiat), 2000
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
PEN International Emerita President 2021 to present
PEN Mexico Emerita President 2013 to present
Curatorial Board Member of the Hermitage Artist Retreat 2019 to present
Advisory Board Member of the Santa Maddalena Foundation 2015 to present
SHOT We The People (Mission: to change the tide of gun violence in America), Board Member 2019 to present
Honorary member of PEN MIRA, Slovenia 2016 to present
Honorary member of AMETIL, Mexican Association of Literary Translators
Sociéte Française Shakespeare, member, Paris, France