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Awards & recognition
- Medal of Gratitude · 2015
- honorary citizen of Cologne · 1983
- Carl von Ossietzky Medal · 1974
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1972
- Georg Büchner Prize · 1967
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- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1965 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1964 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1963 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1962 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1961 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1960 · nominated
