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The combination of roles — writer, filmmaker, novelist — placed him at a point where literary and visual storytelling overlapped, though it is his fiction in English for which the record most fully accounts.\n\nHis work received considerable recognition during his lifetime. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and The Sunday Times Fiction Prize, two honors that situated him within the acknowledged company of British literary fiction. Beyond those prizes, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a distinction reflecting sustained contribution to letters, and appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. 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