Prizes and Honours
- 1980 Faber Memorial Prize for The Slant Door
- 1982 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1984 Arts Council Travelling Scholarship,
- 1986 Cholmondeley Prize
- 1990 Déry Prize for Translation The Tragedy of Man
- 1991 Gold Star of the Hungarian Republic
- 1992 Short listed for Whitbread Poetry Prize for Bridge Passages
- 1995 European Poetry Translation Prize for New Life
- 1996 Shortlisted for Aristeion Translation Prize New Life
- 1999 Sony Bronze Award, 1999 - for contribution to BBC Radio Three, Danube programmes
- 1999 Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for The Adventures of Sindbad
- 2000 Shortlisted for Forward Prize Single Poem: Norfolk Fields
- 2002 George Cushing Prize for Anglo-Hungarian Cultural Relations
- 2002 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship
- 2003 Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- 2004 Pro Cultura Hungarica medal
- 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize, for Reel
- 2005 Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for the Night of Akhenaton
- 2005 Shortlisted for Popescu Prize for The Night of Akhenaton
- 2005 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center
- 2007 Laureate Prize, Days and Nights of Poetry Festival, Romania
- 2008 Bess Hokin Prize (USA) Poetry Foundation
- 2009 Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize for The Burning of the Books and Other Poems
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