Editing Janet Frame (section)

== Awards and honours ==
* 1951: Hubert Church Prose Award (''The Lagoon and other Stories'')
* 1956: New Zealand Literary Fund Grant
* 1958: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement (''Owls Do Cry'')
* 1964: Hubert Church Prose Award (''Scented Gardens for the Blind''); New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters.
* 1965: Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
* 1967:  "Buckland Literary Award." (''The Reservoir and Other Stories''/''A State of Siege'')
* 1969: New Zealand Literary Fund Award (''The Pocket Mirror: Poems'')
* 1971: Buckland Literary Award (Intensive Care); Hubert Church Prose Award. (''Intensive Care'')
* 1972: President of Honour: P.E.N. International New Zealand Centre, Wellington, NZ
* 1973: James Wattie Book of the Year Award (''Daughter Buffalo'')
* 1974: Hubert Church Prose Award (''Daughter Buffalo''); Winn-Manson Menton Fellowship.
* 1978: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt. Honoris Causa) University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
* 1979: Buckland Literary Award (''Living in the Maniototo'')
* 1980: New Zealand Book Award for Fiction (''Living in the Maniototo'')
* 1983: Buckland Literary Award; Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (''To the Is-Land''); C.B.E. (Commander, Order of the British Empire)
* 1984: Frank Sargeson Fellowship, University of Auckland, NZ
* 1984: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (An Angel at My Table); Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (''An Angel at My Table''); Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
* 1985: Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (''The Envoy from Mirror City'')
* 1986: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (''The Envoy from Mirror City''); Honorary Foreign Member: The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
* 1989: Ansett New Zealand Book Award for Fiction; Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (''The Carpathians'')
* 1990: O.N.Z. (Member, Order of New Zealand)
* 1992: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.), University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
* 1994: Massey University Medal, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
* 2003: Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award; New Zealand [[Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/award-winners/prime-minister-s-awards-for-literary-achievement |title=Previous winners |publisher=[[Creative New Zealand]] |access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref>
* 2007: Montana Book Award for Poetry (''The Goose Bath'')