Awards and Honours
- 1951: Hubert Church Prose Award (The Lagoon and other Stories)
- 1956: New Zealand Literary Fund Grant
- 1958: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement (Owls Do Cry)
- 1964: Hubert Church Prose Award (Scented Gardens for the Blind); New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters.
- 1965: Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
- 1967: "Buckland Literary Award." (The Reservoir and Other Stories/A State of Siege)
- 1969: New Zealand Literary Fund Award (The Pocket Mirror: Poems)
- 1971: Buckland Literary Award (Intensive Care); Hubert Church Prose Award." (Intensive Care)
- 1972: President of Honour: P.E.N. International New Zealand Centre, Wellington, NZ
- 1973: James Wattie Book of the Year Award (Daughter Buffallo)
- 1974: Hubert Church Prose Award (Daughter Buffallo); Winn-Manson Menton Fellowship.
- 1978: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt. Honoris Causa) University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
- 1979: Buckland Literary Award (Living in the Maniototo)
- 1980: New Zealand Book Award for Fiction (Living in the Maniototo)
- 1983: Buckland Literary Award; Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (To the Is-Land); C.B.E. (Commander, Order of the British Empire)
- 1984: Frank Sargeson Fellowship, University of Auckland, NZ
- 1984: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (An Angel at My Table); Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (An Angel at My Table); Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
- 1985: Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (The Envoy from Mirror City)
- 1986: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (The Envoy from Mirror City); Honorary Foreign Member: The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1989: Ansett New Zealand Book Award for Fiction; Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (The Carpathians)
- 1990: O.N.Z. (Member, Order of New Zealand)
- 1992: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt), University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
- 1994: Massey University Medal, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
- 2003: Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists; New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement
- 2007: Montana Book Award for Poetry (The Goose Bath)
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