Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Awarded in 1996

D. Litt

University of Oxford

Awarded in 1994

D. Litt

University of Cambridge

Awarded in 1991

D. Litt

Columbia University

Awarded in 1987

D. Litt

New School for Social Research

Awarded in 1987

D. Litt

York University, England

Awarded in 1987

D. Litt

Harvard University

Awarded in 1986

D. Litt

Yale University

Awarded in 1986

D. Litt

Smith College, USA

Awarded in 1985

D. Litt

City College

Awarded in 1985

D. Humane Letters

University of Leuven, Belgium

Awarded in 1981

D. Litt

University of Durban-Westville

D. Litt

University of the Witwatersrand

D. Litt

University of Cape Town

D. Litt

Mary McCarthy Award

'Loot' Story Collection

Primo Levi Award

Commonwealth Regional Prize for Africa

The Pickup (novel)

Order of the Southern Cross (Silver) | President Nelson Mandela

Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century (non-fiction)

The House Gun (novel)

Writing and Being (essays non-fiction)

None to Accompany Me (novel)

Nobel Prize for Literature

Jump (stories)

Benson Medal | Royal Society of Literature

My Son's Story (novel)

The Essential Gesture (essays non-fiction)

A Sport of Nature (novel)

Lifetimes-Under Apartheid (with David Goldblatt) (fiction and photographs)

Decorations: Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Bennett Award

Nelly Sachs Prize (International German Award)

Premio Malaparte (International Italian Award)

Something Out There (stories)

CNA Prize

Modern Languages Assoc Award | USA

Scottish Arts Council Neil Gunn Fellowship Award

July's People (novel)

A Soldier's Embrace (stories)

CNA Prize

Burger's Daughter (novel)

Selected Stories

Grand Aigle d'Or (International French Literary Award)

Booker Prize for ' The Conservationist' (novel)

James Tait Black Memorial Award for 'A Guest of Honour' (novel)

Literary Award for 'The Late Bourgeois World' (novel)

Pringle Award | English Academy of South Africa

W H Smith Literary Award for 'Occasion for Loving' (novel)

On the Mines (with David Goldblatt) (Non-Fiction)

The Black Interpreters (Literary Criticism)

SA Writing Today (Anthology, Co-edited with Lionel Abrahams)

Literary Award for 'Not for Publication' (stories)

James Tait Black Memorial Award for 'Livingstone's Companions' (stories)

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