Awards and Honours
- 1972 PEN Memorial Medal (Hungary)
- 1982 OBE
- 1983 Scottish Book of the Year Award for Poems of Thirty Years
- 1985 Soros Translation Award (New York)
- 1998 Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year for Virtual and Other Realities
- 2000 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- 2001 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Jean Racine: Phaedra
- 2002 The Saltire Society's Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun award for notable service to Scotland
- 2003 Jackie Forster Memorial Award for Culture
- 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature, from the Saltire Society and the Scottish Arts Council
- 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize for A Book of Lives.
- 2008 Scottish Book of the Year Award
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