Brian Friel - Awards

Awards

• 1988 Evening Standard Award for Best Play – Aristocrats
• 1989 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play – Aristocrats
• 1991 Laurence Olivier award for Best Play – Dancing at Lughnasa
• 1992 New York Drama Critics Circle award for best play– Dancing at Lughnasa
• 1992 Tony awards, including Best Play – Dancing at Lughnasa
• 1996 New York Drama Critics Circle award for best foreign play – Molly Sweeney
• 2010 Donegal Person of the Year

• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Member of the British Royal Society of Literature
• Member of the Irish Academy of Letters

• Visiting Writer at Magee College (1970–71 academic year)
• Honorary doctorate from Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois (1974)