Awards and Honours
- 1968 Eric Gregory Award
- 1969 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Terry Street
- 1969 Somerset Maugham Award. for Terry Street
- 1976 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Love or Nothing
- 1976 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Love or Nothing
- 1981 Hawthornden Prize for St. Kilda's Parliament
- 1981 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1985 Whitbread Book of the Year for Elegies
- 1989 Cholmondeley Award
- 2003 Officer of the OBE
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Honorary doctorate (LL.D., law) from the University of Dundee
- Honorary doctorate (D.Litt., literature) from the University of Hull
- Honorary doctorate (D.Litt., literature) from the University of St Andrews
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