Award International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award

Nobel Prize in Literature shortlist

Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings (1997)

Syria-Lebanon Award of the International Poetry Forum, Pittsburg (1971)

Appointed "Officier des Arts et des Lettres" by the Ministry of Culture, Paris (1983)

Nonino Poetry Award, Italy (1999)

Goethe Medal (2001)

America Award in Literature (2003)

Bjørnson Prize (2007)

Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis (2015)

Stig Dagerman Prize (2016)

PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature (2017)