Selected Honours and Awards
- Writers' Guild Screenplay Award (1966)
- Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Without a City Wall (1968)
- Time/Life Silver Pen Award for The Hired Man (1970)
- Northern Arts Association Prose Award (1970)
- Broadcasting Guild Award (1984)
- Ivor Novello Musical Award (1985)
- President of the National Campaign for the Arts (since 1986)
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts Dimbleby Award (1986)
- Honorary Degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University. (1989)
- Domus Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford (1990)
- Bad Sex in Fiction Award for A Time to Dance (1993)
- BAFTA TV Award for An Interview with Dennis Potter (1995)
- Honorary Fellowship from Wadham College, Oxford (1995)
- Stretford Grammar Paired Reading Program, Stretford (1996)
- Governor of the London School of Economics (since 1997).
- Bragg was appointed to the House of Lords as "Baron Bragg, of Wigton in the County of Cumbria"; Labour life peer (1998)
- Appointed Chancellor of the University of Leeds (1999)
- WH Smith Literary Award for The Soldier's Return (2000)
- Namesake of Millom School drama studio (2005)
- The South Bank Show Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)
- BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award (2010)
- Honorary Fellowship of the British Academy (2010), for "public understanding of the arts, literature and sciences"
- Honorary Fellowship of Royal Society (2010)
- "Son of War", "Crossing The Lines" and "A Place in England" all long-listed for the Man Booker Prize
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