• 1960- Anne Frank Prize

  • 1961- Anne Frank Prize

  • 1965- Artists' Prize

  • 1966- Milo Prize for Frost on the ground (anthology of short stories)

  • 1966- Youth Aliyah Prize for “In the children’s eyes” (short story)

  • 1967- Ussishkin Prize

  • 1969- Prime Minister’s Prize to encourage literary creativity

  • 1975- Brenner Prize for XLike the pupil of the eye

  • 1977- Bilhah and Israel Newman Prize, Institute for Hebrew Culture and Education, New York University

  • 1979- Bialik Literature Prize for The age of wonders (book)1982- Ka-Tsetnik Prize

  • 1983- Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature

  • 1984- Present Tense Literary Award for Tzili (book)

  • 1987- Harold U. Ribalow Hadassah Prize for The land of the cattails (book)

  • 1987- WIZO Prize

  • 1988- Wingate Prize for The age of wonders (book)

  • 1989- Honorary doctorate, Yeshiva University

  • 1989- Scheiber Prize for Literature and Art – Beit Shalom Aleichem

  • 1990- Commonwealth Literature Prize

  • 1991- Jewish Book Prize for The healer (book)

  • 1996- Honorary doctorate, Brandeis University

  • 1996- Honorary doctorate, Bar-Ilan University

  • 1998- Yaakov Buchman Memorial Fund “Remembrance Prize”

  • (Yad va-Shem) for The ice mine (book).

  • 1999- National Jewish Writers Association Prize for The Iron Tracks (book).

  • 2000- Honorary doctorate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  • 2001- ADEI-WIZO Prize, Italy, for The story of a life (book)

  • 2004- Prix Medias Etranger, France, for The story of a life (book)

  • 2005- Nelly Sachs Prize, Germany

  • 2005- International Film Prize, Jerusalem

  • 2005- “Commandeur de I‘Ordre des arts et des lettres”, France
    (Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic)

  • 2007- Honorary doctorate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  • 2007- Honorary doctorate, Tel Aviv University

  • 2008- Boccaccio Prize, Italy

  • 2008- Grinzane Cavour Prize, Italy

  • 2008- Dialogue between Nations, Italy for Badenheim 1939 (book)

  • 2009- Lucioles Prize, France (for Pirhe ha-Afelah)

  • 2010- Rosa Deloro Festival La Milanesiana (Milano Italy)

  • 2011- National Book Awards for Until the Dawn's Light.

  • 2012- Medal of Light  award – Israel 2012

  • 2012- The Hebrew Language Academy Award

  • 2012- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize on his novel "Blooms of Darkness"