- W. H. Smith Commonwealth Literary Award for Friday's Footprint (1961)[51]
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for A Guest of Honour (1972)[51]
- Booker Prize for The Conservationist (1974)[51]
- Central News Agency Literary Award for The Conservationist (1974)[52]
- Grand Aigle d'Or (France) (1975)[53]
- Orange Prize shortlist; she declined[31]
- Central News Agency Literary Award for Burger's Daughter (1979)[52]
- Central News Agency Literary Award for July's People (1981)[52]
- Scottish Arts Council Neil M. Gunn Fellowship (1981)[51]
- Modern Language Association Honorary Fellow (1984)[54]
- Rome Prize (1984)[55][56]
- Premio Malaparte (Italy) (1985)[51]
- Nelly Sachs Prize (Germany) (1985)[51]
- Bennett Award (United States) (1987)[57]
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for A Sport of Nature (1988)[58]
- Inducted as an honorary member into Phi Beta Kappa (1988)[59]
- Central News Agency Literary Award for My Son's Story (1990)[52]
- Nobel Prize for Literature (1991)[31]
- International Botev Prize Laureate (1996)[60]
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book from Africa for The Pickup (2002)[61]
- Booker Prize longlist for The Pickup (2001)[62]
- Officier of the Legion of Honour (2007)[63]
- American Philosophical Society, Member (2008)[64]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Honorary Member (1979)[53]
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Member (1980)[53]
- Royal Society of Literature, Fellow[65]
- Congress of South African Writers, Patron[66]
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Commander[53]
- 15 honorary degrees[65]
- Senior Fellow, Massey College of the University of Toronto
- Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Archbishop Desmond Tutu at an awards ceremony at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa (2009)[67][68]
- Order of the Aztec Eagle[69]
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