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Honorary Degrees

Hon. Dr., University of Leicester (to be conferred June 2006)
Hon. D.Litt., University of Kent, 2005
Hon. Dr., Royal College of Art, 2004
Hon. Dr., Tavistock Institute (University of East London), 1999
Hon D. Litt., University of St Andrew’s, 1998
Hon. Dr., University of North London, 1997
Hon D.Litt., University of York, 1997
Hon. Dr., Sheffield Hallam University, 1995
Hon. D. Litt., University of Exeter, 1995

Awards and Prizes

Awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List, 2008
Fellow of the British Academy, 2005
Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella di Solidareità, Italy, 2005
President of the Virgil Society, 2004
Vice-President, Institute of Greece, Rome, and Classical Studies, University of Bristol, 2004
Aby Warburg Prize, 2004
President of the Virgil Society, 2004
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
Katharine Briggs Memorial Prize, 1999
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award, 1996
Harvey Darton Prize, 1996
Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1994
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (Eurasia), 1989
PEN Silver Pen Award, 1988
Booker Prize Short List, 1988
Fawcett Prize, 1986
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1985
Daily Express Award, 1972
Young Writer of the Year (Daily Telegraph Award), 1971
Runner Up: W.H. Smith Children’s Poetry Prize, 1964