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Sorley MacLean was given a number of awards and honorary degrees during his lifetime. The information below was kindly provided by the MacLean family.
Honorary Degrees
- LLD, University of Dundee 1972
- D.Litt, Celt, The National University of Ireland 1979
- D.Litt, University of Edinburgh 1980
- D.Univ, Open University 1989
- D.Univ, University of Grenoble 1989
- D.Phil, Anglia Polytechnic 1994
- D.Litt, University of Glasgow 1996
Honours
- Twice chief of The Gaelic Society of Inverness 1970, 1982
- Honorary President of Saltire Society 1985
- Freeman of Skye and Lochalsh 1987
- Fellow of Royal Society of Literature 1989
- Freeman of Grenoble 1989
- Honorary Fellow of the School of Scottish Studies 1984
- Honorary Fellow of the School of Scottish Studies
- Honorary Degree of Fellowship of the EIS (FEIS)1991
- Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992
- Honorary Fellow of the RIAS 1996
- Honorary Member of the RSA (HRSA) in 1996
Awards
- Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 1990
- MacVitie Prize for Literature 1990
- Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year 1990
- Alumnus of the Year, University of Edinburgh 1990
- Heritage Society of Scotland 1991
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