Awards and honorary degrees of Hugh Leonard
- Writers Guild of Great Britain – Award of Merit for Silent Song, 1966
- Prix Italia for original dramatic television programmes – for Silent Song, 1967
- Jacobs Television Award for adaptations of Wuthering Heights and Nicholas Nickleby, 1969
- Antoinette Perry Award (Tony) nomination for best play – The Au Pair Man, 1973/74
- Antoinette Perry Award (Tony) award for best play – Da, 1977/78
- Drama Desk Award for outstanding new play – Da, 1977/78
- The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play – Da, 1977/78
- Outer Critics Circle Award for most outstanding play of the New York Season – Da, 1977/78
- Harvey’s Irish Theatre Award for A Life – Best New Play, 1979/80
- Antoinette Perry Award (Tony) nomination for best play – A Life, 1980/81
- Rhode Island College – honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, 1980
- University of Dublin – honorary Doctor of Letters degree, 1988
- Society of Authors Sagittarius Prize – novel of Parnell and the Englishwoman, 1992
- The Abbey Theatre Award, 1999
There was a later Jacobs TV Award in HL’s personal effects and this is discussed here.
Hugh Leonard, playwright 
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