Editing Douglas Dunn (section)

==Awards and honours==
*1968 [[Eric Gregory Award]]
*1969 [[Scottish Arts Council]] Book Award for ''Terry Street''
*1969 [[Somerset Maugham Award]].  for ''Terry Street''
*1976 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for ''Love or Nothing''
*1976 [[Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize]] for ''Love or Nothing''
*1981 [[Hawthornden Prize]] for ''St. Kilda's Parliament''
*1981 Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]
*1985 [[Whitbread Book of the Year]] for ''Elegies''
*1989 [[Cholmondeley Award ]]
*2003 Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
*[[Guggenheim Fellowship]] 
*Honorary doctorate (LL.D., law) from the [[University of Dundee]]
*Honorary doctorate (D.Litt., literature) from the [[University of Hull]]
*Honorary doctorate (D.Litt., literature) from the [[University of St Andrews]]