Award Whitbread Prize for Fiction

Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1969)

Somerset Maugham Award (1966)

Hawthornden Prize (1967)

London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy (1975, 1980, 1982, 1998, 2003)

Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year (1976, 1982)

Tony Award for Best Play (1984, 2000)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1986, 2000)

International Emmy Award for Best Drama (1990)

Sunday Express Book of the Year (1991)

Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (1998)

Prix Molière (1999)

The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (2002)

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (2002)

Golden PEN Award (2003)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2003)

St. Louis Literary Award (2006)

Writer's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)

South Bank Show Outstanding Achievement Award (2012)