Awards
- 1959 Carnegie Medal, The Lantern Bearers
- 1971 Zilveren Griffel (the Dutch Silver Pencil)
- 1972 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Tristan and Iseult
- 1978 The Other Award, Song for a Dark Queen
- 1985 Phoenix Award, The Mark of the Horse Lord (1965)
- 2010 Phoenix Award, The Shining Company (1990)
Sutcliff was nominated for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1968 and highly commended in 1974.
Beside winning the 1959 Carnegie Medal, Sutcliff was a commended runner five times. Alan Lee, who illustrated Sutcliff's posthumously published retellings of The Iliad and The Odyssey, won the companion Kate Greenaway Medal for the former, Black Ships Before Troy (1993).
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