2023 Museum of the Book and Romanian Exile, Craiova Romania

  • Certificate of Excellence for Romanian Artists Living in Exile from the Museum of the Book and Exile, Craiova

  • Inauguration of the Andrei Codrescu Scholarship for Young Researches to be awarded yearly by the Museum of the Book and Exile, Craiova

  • Andrei Codrescu Archive installation at the Museum of the Book and the Romanian Exile

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2023-2024 The International Fusion Museum’s 2023–2024 Kafka Prize In recognition of Codrescu's literary excellence, his public passion, defense of the arts, and his work in publishing, radio and television…residencies in Stare Mesto–Prague 1 & Hostka the Czecch Republic. 2023–2024

2023 Doctor Honoris Causa in Letters Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

2017 Heritage Award from the American Immigration Council; past honorees include include musician Carlos Santana, Nobel Prize winning physicist Daniel Tsui, General Colin Powell, baseball player Sammy Sosa, Senator Daniel Inouye, Diane Guerrero, Gaby Pacheco and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

2024 - Advisory Board, Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, University of Pennsylvania

2016–present Creative Advisory Board, Dia Museum

2013 National Book Award Finalist So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems 1966-2012 (Coffee House Press 2012)

2006 Ovidius Prize for Literature; past honorees include Orhan Pamuk, Milan Kundera, Amos Oz, Jorge Semprun, Madeleine Thien, Mario Vargas Llosa.

1993 George Foster Peabody Award for writing and starring in the film Road Scholar. Golden Eagle Award from Cine, Washington, DC., The Chris Award from the Columbus Film Festival, the Golden Gate Award from San Francisco Film Festival, Audience Award at San Francisco Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Seattle Film Festival.

Contributing Editor, American Book Review

Contributing Editor, Steaua Literary Review

Contributing Editor, Scrisul Romanesc

2009 MacCurdy Distinguished Chair in English, Louisiana State University

2004 Doctor Honoris Causa in Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

2001 The Star of Romania at the rank of Commander, Presidential honor

2008 Professor Honoris Causa, University of Bucharest

2007 Premiul Radio Romania Cultural for the epic poem “Submarinul Iertat,” with Ruxandra Cesereanu. A literary prize given for achievements in the arts.

2006 New Orleans Mayor's Award for Literature

2005 King of Krewe de Vieux at Mardi Gras in New Orleans; past honorees include Danny Barker, Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas, Ronnie Virgets and Dr. John; also King of Molly's Halloween Parade, and King of the Krew de Jieux in New Orleans in the 1990s.

2006 New Orleans Writers Association Award

2002 Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism

2003 Pushcart Prize for “Geographers,” a long poem; also received the 1987 Pushcart Prize for the novella “Samba de Los Agentes.”

2001 Literature Prize of the Romanian Cultural Foundation

2001 Alternative Newsweekly Awards, First Prize for Column

1989-2010 LSU MacCurdy Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English

1998 Doctor Honoris Causa in Humanities, Shenandoah University, Virginia

1997 Vladimir Colin International Literature Prize

1995 ACLU Freedom of Speech Award

1993 George Foster Peabody Award for the film Road Scholar;

1984 General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize

1983 Towson State University Literature Prize

1970 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. 1996 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for editing Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas; 1998 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for NPR radio projects.

1970 Big Table Younger Poets Poetry Award

 

"Codrescu speaks and writes with unflinching honesty and with a humor whose inflections—Jewish, Eastern European, transnational--force us to re-adjust our American ears and learn to hear the other." –Mihaela Moscaliuc

"As in Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” Codrescu’s “Unarchive” attends to the “barbarism” of historiography. Archival inscrip- tion is itself a catastrophic site. Influenced by a youth spent in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romanian Stalinist state from 1946 to 1966, his stated goal is to “sabotage the narratives of Archives in ways that would allow the Archives of Amnesia to pour through into the present.” –Daniel Morris

"Codrescu is possessed of a certain ‘internationalism’ (for lack of a better term), and like Paz or Bolaño for instance, has as his touchstone and reference the polyglot literature of the continent and is not bound by the insular singularity of the imperial tongue alone. By contrast linguistically challenged American writers are adrift on an English barque" –Pat Nolan