A Tale for the Time Being

Awards and nominations (selected)

  • 2015 Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award for Foreign Literature, from The Leo Tolstoy Museum and Estate, for A Tale for the Time Being. Ozeki was the first international recipient of this award.[5]
  • 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Award (Fiction) longlist.[6]
  • 2014 Dos Passos Prize.[7]
  • 2014 Medici Book Club Prize.[8]
  • 2014 Canada-Japan Literary Award.[9]
  • 2014 The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.[10]
  • 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist. Ozeki was the first practicing Zen Buddhist priest to be shortlisted for the Man Booker.[11]
  • 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) shortlist.[12][13]
  • 2013 The Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel.[14]
  • 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.[15]

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