Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo, one of the most important contemporary authors worldwide, was born in 1936 in the Bronx, New York. He has published a total of sixteen novels and a collection of short stories. He released his first novel, titled "Americana," in 1971 and became widely known with the novel "White Noise," which was honored with the American National Book Award in 1985. His works have received numerous awards. "Libra" was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize in 1989, "Mao II" won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992, and "Underworld" received the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2000, which is awarded every five years to the best novel of the five-year period. DeLillo is the first American to be honored with the Jerusalem Prize in 1999 for his entire body of work, for which he also received the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize in 2010, the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013, and the Norman Mailer Prize in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded the National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his outstanding contribution to American literature.