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"