Awards & Prizes

Runner Up: W.H. Smith Children's Poetry Prize, l964.
Young Writer of the Year (Daily Telegraph Award), l971

Daily Express Award, l972

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1985

Fawcett Prize, l986

Booker Prize Short List, l988

PEN Silver Pen Award, l988

Commonwealth Writer's Prize (Eurasia), l989

Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, l994

Harvey Darton Prize, l996

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 1996

Katharine Briggs Memorial Prize, 1999

Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 2000

Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2000

Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, British Academy, 2000

Vice-President, Institute of Greece, Rome, and Classical Studies, University of Bristol 2004

Aby Warburg Prize, 2004

President of the Virgil Society, 2004

Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella di Solidareità, Italy, 2005

Fellow of the British Academy, 2005

Honorary Degrees

Hon. D. Litt., University of Exeter, l995

Hon. Dr., Sheffield Hallam University, l995

Hon D.Litt., University of York, l997

Hon. Dr., University of North London, l997

Hon D. Litt., University of St Andrew’s, l998

Hon. Dr., Tavistock Institute (University of East London), 1999

Hon. Dr., Royal College of Art, 2004

Hon. D.Litt., University of Kent, 2005

Hon. Dr., University of Leicester (to be conferred June 2006)