Honours and Awards
- Croix de guerre (France)
- Médaille de la Résistance (France)
- 1959 honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin
- 1961 International Publishers' Formentor Prize (shared with Jorge Luis Borges).
- 1968 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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