The phrase "award herself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is giving themselves recognition or a reward for an achievement or accomplishment.
Example: "After completing the marathon, she decided to award herself a relaxing spa day."
Alternatives: "give herself a reward" or "treat herself".
Never, indeed, have I known an autobiographer so lavishly to award herself all the breaks.
Coppola collected the award herself, receiving it from her former boyfriend Tarantino.
Cyndi Lauper, clad in a piano key skirt, hosted the event – and won an award herself for Kinky Boots.
Accepting her award, Mirren said she thought the Queen would be thrilled and deserved an award herself for "the most consistent, committed performance of the 20th century and probably the 21st too".
Little was joined on the panel by the novelist Tash Aw, the writer Sarah Hall – who won the BBC national short story award herself in 2013 – the crime writer Ian Rankin and BBC Radio's books editor, Di Speirs.
A few days after the filming in Orlando, writer went to L.A., to visit Melissa... Describes watching her change clothes to attend the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awardsshowowhereere she presented an award and received a Favorite Female Television Actress of the Year award herself... "I've been getting hell for being too old to play Sabrina," she said.
On the economy, among other subjects, she awarded herself top marks.
For one thing, it prolonged the near-dictatorial powers she had awarded herself for another six years.
If Lena Dunham pulls off the second, she will actually earn the title she self-mockingly awarded herself: "a voice of a generation".
Terri, the lady who creates these monsters, describes herself as a "neophile", as if awarding herself a spurious condition is an excuse.
But Thatcher had grown used under Thomas to awarding herself unilateral free kicks, and her face when Weatherill sent her back was an education in discontent.
