Honours
- Italy's Premio Letterario Internazionale, for The Paradise Eater (1990)
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de France (1996)
- Gordon Montador Award, for The Unconscious Civilization (1996)
- Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction, for The Unconscious Civilization (1996)
- Gordon Montador Award, for Reflections of a Siamese Twin (1998)
- Companion of the Order of Canada (1999)
- Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)
- Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honour (2004)
- Manhae Literary Prize (2010)
- Inaugural Gutenburg Galaxy Award for Literature (2011)
- Writers' Union of Canada's Freedom to Read Award (2011)
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“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
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Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
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Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)