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=== Awards and recognition === * 1971: [[Adamson Awards]], Sweden<ref name="Casterman">{{Cite web|title=Hergé|url=http://www.casterman.com/Bande-dessinee/Auteurs/herge|publisher=Casterman|access-date=15 June 2016|language=fr}}</ref> * 1972: [[The Yellow Kid#Influence and legacy|Yellow Kid]] lifetime award ("una vita per il cartooning") at the [[Lucca Comics & Games|Festival of Lucca]]{{Sfn|Lucca|1972}} * 1973: [[Prix Saint-Michel|Grand Prix Saint Michel]] of the city of [[Brussels]]<ref name="Casterman" /> * 1999: Included in the [[Harvey Award]] Jack Kirby Hall of Fame<ref name="Casterman" /> * 2003: Included in the [[Eisner Award]] Hall of Fame as the Judge's choice<ref name="Casterman" /> * 2006: The [[14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama]] bestowed the [[International Campaign for Tibet]]'s [[Light of Truth Award]] upon the character of Tintin.{{Sfn|BBC News|2006}} * 2007: Selected as the main motif for a Belgian [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Belgium)#2007 coinage|commemorative coin]] with a face value of €20 in honour of his 100th birthday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-05-23/belgium-marks-100th-anniversary-of-tintin-creator/2555770|title=Belgium marks 100th anniversary of Tintin creator|date=23 May 2007|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2 January 2019}}</ref> According to the [[UNESCO]]'s [[Index Translationum]], Hergé is the ninth-most-often-translated French-language author, the second-most-often-translated Belgian author after [[Georges Simenon]], and the second-most-often-translated French-language comics author behind [[René Goscinny]].{{Sfn|Index Translationum}} He also had an asteroid, [[1652 Hergé]], within the [[Asteroid belt|main belt]], named after him in 1953.{{Sfn|Assouline|2009|p=175}}
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