Recognition
Mandel won the 1968 Governor General's Award for An Idiot Joy.
In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
In 1989 he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by York University. York University Honorary Degree Recipients, Web.
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