George Steiner - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

George Steiner has received many honors, including:

• A Rhodes Scholarship (1950)
• A Guggenheim Fellowship (1971–72)
• Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French Government (1984)
• The Morton Dauwen Zaubel Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters (1989)
• The King Albert Medal by the Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences
• An honorary fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford (1995)
• The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award by Stanford University (1998)
• The Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities (2001)
• Fellowship of the British Academy
• Honorary Doctorate of Literature degrees from:
  • University of East Anglia (1976)
  • University of Leuven (1980)
  • Mount Holyoke College (1983)
  • Bristol University (1989)
  • University of Glasgow (1990)
  • University of Liège (1990)
  • University of Ulster (1993)
  • Durham University (1995)
  • Queen Mary, University of London (2006)
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (2006)
  • Honoris Causa - Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon (2009)

He has also won numerous awards for his fiction and poetry, including:

• Remembrance Award (1974) for Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966.
• PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1992) for Proofs and Three Parables.
• PEN/Macmillan Fiction Prize (1993) for Proofs and Three Parables.
• JQ Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction (joint winner with Louise Kehoe and Silvia Rodgers) (1997) for No Passion Spent.