1982   Eric Gregory Award (poetry)

1985   Dylan Thomas Award — The Silver Age

1997   Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry

1997   Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Prize for Best Screenplay  —  (winner) Sunday

1999   TLS/Blackwells Poetry Competition  — (winner) Locals (from Landscape with Chainsaw)

2001   Forward Poetry Prize  —  (shortlist)   Landscape with Chainsaw

2001   Los Angeles Times Book Prize  —  (shortlist)   Landscape with Chainsaw

2001   T.S. Eliot Prize  —  (shortlist)  Landscape with Chainsaw

2002   An Economist Best Book of the Year  —  The Horned Man

2002   A New York Times Notable Book of the Year  —  The Horned Man

2006   National Short Story Competition  —  (winner) An Anxious Man

2007   Booker Man Prize  —  (long list)  Seven Lies

2007   An Economist Best Book of the Year  —  Seven Lies

2007   Encore Award  —  (shortlist)  Seven Lies

2007   James Tait Black Memorial Prize  —  (shortlist)  Seven Lies

2009   Atlantic Monthly Best Five Books of the Year  —  It’s Beginning to Hurt

2020   Rathbones Folio Prize  —  (shortlist) Victory (includes Afternoon of a Faun)