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Literature prizes
- 1953: Fénéon prize for the novel La Grande Maison (Le Seuil).
- 1961: René Laporte poetry prize for Ombre gardienne (Gallimard).
- 1963: Jules Davaine prize of Académie française for the novel Qui se souvient de la mer (Le Seuil).
- 1963: Prize of the poetry college of the city of Menton (France)
- 1966: Prize of the Algerian writers’ union (Algeria)
- 1968: Paul Flat prize of Académie française for the novel La danse du roi (Le Seuil).
- 1971: Broquette-Gonin prize of Académie française for his complete works of poetry.
- 1974: Paul Flat prize of Académie française for the novel Le maître de chasse (Le Seuil).
- 1977: Prize of the Association des Écrivains de Langue Française for the novel Habel (Le Seuil).
- 1994 : Great prize of francophony of Académie française for the entirety of his work.
- 1998 : Mallarmé prize for his poetry collection L’enfant jazz, (Éditions de La Différence).
- 1998 : The great novel prize of the city of Paris for complete works of prose.
- 2001 : Prize of the Découvreurs (National prize of discovery of contemporary poetry), Boulogne-sur-Mer.
