What did DeLillo win in 1999?
The Jerusalem Prize
PEN/Faulkner Award
The Pulitzer Prize
National Book Award for fiction
Answer
In 1999, Don DeLillo won The Jerusalem Prize for his novel Underworld. The Jerusalem Prize is an international literary award that is given to a writer who has made an outstanding contribution to world literature. DeLillo was chosen for the prize because of his work's "exploration of the relationship between America and the rest of the world, and its probing of the nature of consciousness and the human condition."
Unraveling the Artistry: A Quiz on Don DeLilllo, Master of American Literature
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