Rabih Alameddine

Awards & Honours

Awards Won

Honours

Rabih Alameddine's shelf of honors reflects a career built on literary risk and emotional honesty. Winning both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award places him in rare company, and his 2026 Jim Duggins Prize recognizes his sustained influence on queer literature. His novels have been finalists for the International Dublin Literary Award and have earned praise from critics across the globe, cementing his reputation as a master of the contemporary novel.

AwardsRabih Alameddine has won two of the most prestigious awards in American letters. In 2022, he received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Wrong End of the Telescope. In 2025, he won the National Book Award for Fiction for The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). In 2026, he shared the Jim Duggins Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist with Kristen Arnett.

Honours & Distinctions

Faculty appointment

Georgetown University·Ongoing

Teaches creative writing as part of the faculty.