Updated: April 19,h 2008
Writer, Iranslator, Professor Emeritus of English and Film. University of Toronto
Guggenheim Fellow
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, Statě University of New York at Binghamton 1986
Doctor scientiae artium honoris causa, Masaryk University, Brno 1991
Doctor of Laws honoris causa, The University of Calgary, 1992
Doctor of Letters honoris causa, University of Toronto, 1992
Doctor Litterarium, McMaster University, Hamilton 1993
Awarded Order of the White Lion by the President of Czechoslovakia Václav Havel, 1990
Appointed Member of the Order of Canada, 1992
Certificate of Recognition of his and his wife Zdena Salivarova’s lifelong dedication to the
Cause of freedom and democracy, presented by the PrimeMinister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, 2008
Chevalier de L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, République Francaise, 1996
Recipient of the Ontario Bicentennial Medal
Recipient of the T.G.Masaryk Honorary Medal, 1998
František Martin Pelcl Medal, Rychnov n/K, 1990
The Palacký University Medal, Olomouc, 1990
Laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literatuře, 1980
Governor GeneraPs Literary Award for Best Fiction, 1984
Czech Republic’s State Prize for Literatuře, 1999
Prize of the Comenius Pangea Foundation „For Improvement of Human Affairs“, 2001
Jaroslav Seifert Prize for Fiction, 2004
Gratias Agit,for promoting the good name of Czech Republic abroad, 2006
Echoing Green Foundation Literary Prize, New York, 1990
Silver Award 1981 for Best Fiction published in Canadian Magazínes, 1980
City of Toronto Award for the Best Book of 1984
Author’s Award of the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters 1988
Artur Ellis Award for Best Crime Fiction (short story), 1989
Karel Poláček Prize for Humane Humour, 1998
Special Award of the Prague Science Fiction Academy, 1999
Toronto Arts Award, 1999
Honorary Citizen of the Capital City of Prague, 1990
Honorary Citizen of the Town of Náchod, 1990
Honoráry Member of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Science in America, 1988
Honorary Member of the Kafka and Prague Society, 1990
Fellow of the World Academy of Rusyn Culture
Writer-in-Residence, University of Toronto, 1970-71
Writer-in-Residence, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1984
Writer-in-Residence, The University of British Columbia, 1984
Writer-in-Residence, Amherst College, 1985-6
Fellow of the Australian National University, Canberra, 1990
Member of the Board of Directors, Toronto Arts Council, 1984-5
Honoráry Chairman, The Miloš Havel Foundation, Barrandov Studios.Inc,
Prague Honorary Chairman,
The Egon Hostovský Literary Prize
