Stanisław Lem - Honors and Accolades

Honors and Accolades

• 1957 – City of Kraków's Prize in Literature (Nagroda Literacka miasta Krakowa)
• 1965 – Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art, 2nd Level (Nagroda Ministra Kultury i Sztuki II stopnia)
• 1972 – member of commission "Poland 2000" of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• 1973
  • Prize of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for popularization of Polish culture abroad (nagroda Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych za popularyzację polskiej kultury za granicą)
  • Literary Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art (nagroda literacka Ministra Kultury i Sztuki) and honorary member of Science Fiction Writers of America
• 1976 – State Prize 1st Level in the area of literature (Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia w dziedzinie literatury)
• 1979
  • Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for his novel Katar.
  • A minor planet, 3836 Lem, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979, is named after him.
• 1981 – Doctor honoris causa honorary degree from the Wrocław University of Technology
• 1986 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 1991 – Austrian literary Franz Kafka Prize
• 1994 – member of the Polish Academy of Learning
• 1996 – recipient of the Order of the White Eagle
• 1997 – honorary citizen of Kraków
• 1998 – Doctor honoris causa: University of Opole, Lviv University, Jagiellonian University
• 2003 – Doctor honoris causa of the University of Bielefeld
• 2007 – A street in Kraków is to be named in his honour.
• 2009 – A street in Wieliczka was named in his honour
• 2011 – An interactive Google logo inspired by The Cyberiad was created and published in his honor for the 60th anniversary of his first published book: The Astronauts.