List of Awards and Prizes
- USSR State Prize (1989) - for his novel "Sandro of Chegem"
- Alfred Toepfer foundation's Pushkin Prize (1992)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Arts (1993)
- Triumph Prize (1999).
- Order of Honour and Glory, 1st class (Abkhazia, 18 June 2002)
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
- 2nd class (29 September 2004)
- 3rd class (3 March 1999)
- 4th class (13 March 2009, presented on February 17, 2010.)
- Honorary Member of Russian Academy of Arts
In 2009, Bank of Abkhazia issued a commemorative silver coin from the series "Outstanding Personalities of Abkhazia", dedicated to Fazil Iskander denomination of 10 apsaras.
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