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)[16] The Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities (2001)[18] Fellowship of the British Academy Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts 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)