• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of Iowa
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for short fiction (1956, 1961 and 1965)
• Fulbright Program Exchange Professorship
• American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation
• Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, University of the Philippines
• Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines)
• Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Wichita State University (Kansas, U.S.)

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• The Volcano (1965)
• Villa Magdalena (1965)
• The Praying Man (1982)
• The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor (1983)
• What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco? (1987)
• The Late,Late Show

• You Lovely People (1955)
• Brother, My Brother (1960)
• The Day the Dancers Came (1967, 1991)
• Scent of Apples (1979)
• Dwell in the Wilderness (1985)
• The Old Favorites
• The Bus Driver's Daughter
• Maligno sa Banga
• Courage (1990's)
• The Summer of my 17th Year

• The Wounded Stag (1956,1992)
• Distances: In Time (1983)
• "March of Death"
• Music for One
• Come Home, Heroes

• Memory's Fictions: A Personal History (1993)
• Postscript to a Saintly Life (1994)
• Selected Letters: Book 1 (1995)
• Selected Letters: Book 2 (1996)