Giải thưởng

• Governor General's Award, (1966, 1985)[125]
• Companion of the Order of Canada, 1981[126]
• Guggenheim fellowship, 1981[127]
• Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, 1986[128]
• American Humanist Association Humanist of the Year, 1987 [129]
• Nebula Award, 1986 and Prometheus Award, 1987 nominations, both science fiction awards.[130][131]
• Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, 1987[132]
• Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988[133]
• Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1989
• Trillium Book Award, 1991, 1993, 1995[134]
• Government of France's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1994[135]
• Helmerich Award, 1999, by the Tulsa Library Trust.[136]
• Booker Prize, 2000[137]
• Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, 2007[138]
• Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 2008[139]
• Nelly Sachs Prize, Đức, 2010[140]
• Dan David Prize, Israel, 2010[141]
• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canada, 2012[142]
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Innovator's Award", 2012[143]
• Gold medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2015[144]
• Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2016[145]
• Franz Kafka Prize, Cộng hòa Séc, 2017[146]
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Đức, 2017[147]
• Companion of Honour, 2019 [148]

Bằng danh dự

• Trent University, 1973[149]
• Queen's University, 1974[150]
• Concordia University, 1979[151]
• Smith College, 1982[152]
• University of Toronto, 1983[153]
• University of Waterloo, 1985[154]
• University of Guelph, 1985[155]
• Mount Holyoke College, 1985[156]
• Victoria College, 1987[157]
• Université de Montréal, 1991[158]
• University of Leeds, 1994[135]
• McMaster University, 1996[159]
• Lakehead University, 1998[160]
• University of Oxford, 1998[161]
• Algoma University, 2001[162]
• University of Cambridge, 2001[163]
• Dartmouth College, 2004[164]
• Harvard University, 2004[165]
• Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005[166]
• National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011[167]
• Ryerson University, 2012[168]
• Royal Military College of Canada (LL.D), ngày 16 tháng 11 năm 2012 [169]
• University of Athens, 2013[170]
• University of Edinburgh, 2014[171]