Award Ingram Merrill Foundation Award

Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1985)

Pulitzer Prize (Fiction, 1990)

Rome Prize (1985)

Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature (2000)

Luis Leal Award (2003)

Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1974)

Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie française (1984)

Grand prix de Société des gens de lettres (1985)

Légion d'Honneur (Commandeur, 1983)

French National Poetry Prize (1981)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary Member, 1980)