Awards and Recognition
- 1967 Biblioteca Breve Award for A Change of Skin
- 1972 Member of the Colegio Nacional
- 1972 Mazatlán Literature Prize for Tiempo mexicano (Fuentes refused the award in protest against the policies of the government of the state of Sinaloa against the student movement at the State University of Sinaloa)
- 1976 Xavier Villaurrutia Award for Terra Nostra
- 1977 Rómulo Gallegos Prize for Terra Nostra
- 1979 Alfonso Reyes International Prize
- 1983 Honorary Doctorate granted by Harvard University
- 1984 Mexican National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- 1984 Massey Lecture
- 1987 Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- 1987 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters) granted by the University of Cambridge
- 1989 Istituto Italo-Latino Americano Award for The Old Gringo
- 1992 National Order of Merit of France
- 1992 Premio Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
- 1993 Commander of the Order of Merit of Chile
- 1994 Grinzane Cavour Prize
- 1994 Prince of Asturias Award
- 1994 UNESCO's Pablo Picasso Medal
- 1999 Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
- 2001 Honorary Member of the Mexican Academy of Language
- 2004 Prize of the Real Academia Española for En esto creo
- 2005 Galileo 2000 Prize
- 2006 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression
- 2006 Huizinga Lecture
- 2008 Internacional don Quijote de la Mancha Prize
- 2009 Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
- 2011 Prix Formentor
- 2012 Creation of the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language by the Mexican government.
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