Award Nonino Poetry Award, Italy

Nobel Prize in Literature shortlist

International Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award (1995)

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)

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)