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Awards & recognition
- Order of Merit · 1998
- Golden Wreath · 1994
- Guardian Children's Fiction Prize · 1985
- honorary doctorate · 1983
- Heinemann Award · 1980
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- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1977
- King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal — Poetry · 1974
- Hawthornden Prize · 1961
- Somerset Maugham Award · 1960
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- T. S. Eliot Prize
