Awards
- 1989 Prix France Culture de Littérature Étrangère for The New York Trilogy
- 1990 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist for The Music of Chance
- 1993 Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan
- 1996 Bodil Awards - Best American Film: Smoke
- 1996 Independent Spirit Award - Best First Screenplay: Smoke
- 1996 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
- 2003 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (received in previous years by Günter Grass, Arthur Miller, and Mario Vargas Llosa)
- 2006 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Literature
- 2007 Honorary doctor from the University of Liège
- 2007 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2010 Médaille Grand Vermeil de la ville de Paris
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