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Awards & recognition
- AWB Vincent Literary Award · 2012
- Griffin Poetry Prize · 2012
- Irish Book Awards · 2011
- Poetry Now Award · 2011
- Ulysses Medal · 2011
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- Forward Poetry Prize · 2010
- David Cohen Prize · 2009
- Cunningham Medal · 2008
- Poetry Now Award · 2007
- T. S. Eliot Prize · 2006
- Irish PEN Award · 2005
- Bodley Medal · 2004
- Truman Capote Award — Literary Criticism · 2003
- Golden Wreath · 2001
- honorary doctor of Caen University · 2000
- Costa Book Awards · 1999
- St. Louis Literary Award · 1998
- Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service · 1997
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · 1996
- Costa Book Awards · 1996
- honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University · 1996
- Flaiano Prize · 1995
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1995
- Horst Bienek Award — Poetry · 1994
- Sikkens Prize · 1991
- Lannan Literary Awards · 1990
- People of the Year Awards · 1989
- Costa Book Awards · 1987
- PEN Translation Prize · 1985
- honorary doctorate · 1984
- WH Smith Literary Award · 1976
- Duff Cooper Prize · 1975
- E. M. Forster Award · 1975
- AWB Vincent Literary Award · 1973
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize · 1968
- Somerset Maugham Award · 1968
- Cholmondeley Award · 1967
- Eric Gregory Award · 1966
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Golden Rose Award
- honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
- honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña
- James Joyce Awards
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- Costa Book Awards · 2006 · nominated
- World Fantasy Special Award: Professional · 2000 · nominated
- Neustadt International Prize — Literature · 1994 · nominated
