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Awards
He is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society, and declined a CBE and a Knighthood in 1989 and 2003 respectively.
 * 1966: Somerset Maugham Award, for The Tin Men
 * 1975: London Evening Standard Award (Best Comedy), for Alphabetical Order
 * 1976: Laurence Olivier Award (Comedy of the Year), for Donkeys' Years
 * 1980: London Evening Standard Award (Best Comedy), for Make and Break
 * 1982: London Evening Standard Award (Best Comedy), for Noises Off
 * 1982: Laurence Olivier Award (Comedy of the Year), for Noises Off
 * 1984: London Evening Standard Award (Best Play), for Benefactors
 * 1986: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Best Foreign Play), for Benefactors
 * 1990: International Emmy Awards (Best Drama), for First and Last (BBC)
 * 1991: Sunday Express Book of the Year, for A Landing on the Sun
 * 1998: Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Best New Play), for Copenhagen
 * 1998: London Evening Standard Award (Best Play), for Copenhagen
 * 2000: Tony Awards (Best Play), for Copenhagen
 * 2000: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Best Foreign Play), for Copenhagen
 * 2002: Whitbread Novel Award, for Spies (the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award went to his wife Claire Tomalin)
 * 2002: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Spies
 * 2003: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe and South Asia Best Book), for Spies
 * 2003: London Evening Standard Award (Best Play), for Democracy
 * 2003: Golden PEN Award
 * 2005: Honorary DLitt from the University of Birmingham
 * 2006: St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates