He was rewarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, which established him as a representative figure in contemporary American Literature and a vanguard of contemporary fiction in the wake of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

• 1976年诺贝尔文学奖的授予奠定了他作为现代美国文学代表人物的地位，并使其成为继海明威和福克纳之后现代小说界的先锋作家。 贝娄在小说中展现了主人公内心深处的痛苦和冲突，以此对个体成长历程进行了独到的探询，以及对个体存在的真正意义进行了不懈的探索。