Award Goethe medal

MWA Grand Master (1984)

Cartier Diamond Dagger (1988)

Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)

Olof Palme prize (2020)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1927)

Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938, 1943)

Chevalier, Legion of Honor (1951)

National Book Committee's National Medal for Literature (1965)

Edward MacDowell Medal (1960)

National Book Award for fiction (1968)

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1957)

Friedenspreis, Deutschen Buchhandels (1957)

Sonderpreis (1959)

Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)

Brandeis University Creative Arts Award for theater and film (1959-60)

Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2013)

Medal of the Order of Merit (Peru)

Order of Merit (West Germany)

Century Association Art Medal

Honorary member of Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.)

Legion of Merit

Bronze Star

Alpha Delta Phi