Awards and Recognition
- Won the Dominion Drama Festival Award for best Canadian play in 1948 for Eros at Breakfast.
- Won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1955 for Leaven of Malice.
- Won the Lorne Pierce Medal for his literary achievements in 1961.
- Won the Governor-General's Literary Award in the English language fiction category in 1972 for The Manticore.
- Short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1986 for What's Bred in the Bone.
- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Oxford, 1991.
- First Canadian to become an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
- Companion of the Order of Canada.
- Park in Toronto named after him in 2007.
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