- Awarded The International Goliardos Prize (Mexico) for his contribution to the literature of the fantastic

- a three-time World Fantasy Award nominee

- awarded the Casper in 1987

Tigana

- nominated for the 1991 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and the 1991 World Fantasy Award, and it won the 1991 Aurora Award

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The Summer Tree

- runner-up for SF Book Club's book of the year award

The Wandering Fire

- won the Aurora Award in 1987

The Last Light Of The Sun

- was on the Washington Post's Year's Best Fiction list for 2004

- was on January Magazine's list of Best Fiction of 2004

- was nominated for the Canadian Sunburst Award in 2005. The Sunburst is awarded to a Canadian author as selected by a panel for excellence in speculative fiction.

The Lions Of Al-Rassan

- nominated for the Geffen Award in the category of "Translated Fantasy Books" for the awards to be presented in 2005. The Geffen Awards are given by The Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing To Sarantium; Lord Of Emperors) was chosen as a finalist in the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for Fantasy Literature in 2001

Lord Of Emperors (2000), was short-listed for the Sunburst Awards 2001, which are given for fantasy novels published by Canadian authors in the previous year