Award Prix Europa

Israel Prize (1998)

Goethe Prize (2005)

Premio Príncipe de Asturias (2007)

Friedenspreis (1992)

Bialik Prize (1986)

Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007)

Brenner Prize for Literature (1976)

Ze'ev Award for Children's Literature (1978)

Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1978)

Bernstein Prize (1983)

Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (1984)

Prix Femina (1988)

Wingate Prize (1988)

Primo Levi Prize (2008)

International Medal of Tolerance (2002)

Peace Prize at Frankfurt International Book Fair (1992)

Knight's Cross of the Legion D'Honneur of the Republic of France (1997)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa literary prize (2012)

Ovid Prize (2004)

Franz Kafka Prize (2013)

Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil (2014)

Siegfried-Lenz-Preis (2014)

Internationaler Literaturpreis (2015)

Park Kyong-ni Prize (2015)

Stig Dagerman Prize (2018)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)