List of honors bestowed on Stanisław Lem

This is the list of honors bestowed on Stanisław Lem.

• 1955: Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) [1]
• 1957 – City of Kraków's Prize in Literature (Nagroda Literacka miasta Krakowa) for the totality of the literary work, with the special mention of Time Not Lost[2]
• 1959: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta[3]
• 1965 – Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art, 2nd Level (Nagroda Ministra Kultury i Sztuki II stopnia)
• 1970:
  • Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta[4]
  • Prize of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for popularization of Polish culture abroad (nagroda Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych za popularyzację polskiej kultury za granicą)
• 1973 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
  • Order of the Banner of Work of the 2nd class
  • 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.[5]
• 1981 – Doctor honoris causa honorary degree from the Wrocław University of Technology[6]
• 1986 – Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 1987 Honorary title "Person of Merit for National Culture" ("Zasłużony dla kultury narodowej"), Polish Council of State [7]
• 1991 – Austrian literary Franz Kafka Prize[7]
• 1994 – member of the Polish Academy of Learning
• 1996 – recipient of the Order of the White Eagle[6]
• 1997 – honorary citizen of Kraków[6]
• 1998 – Doctor honoris causa: University of Opole, Lviv University, Jagiellonian University[6]
• 2001 – Golden Scepter (Polish: Złote Berło) Award of the Polish Culture Foundation and BIG Bank Gdański for "the overtaking his time with the thought" ("za wyprzedzenie myślą swego czasu")[8]
• 2003 – Doctor honoris causa of the University of Bielefeld[6]
• 2005 - Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (on the list of the first recipients of the newly introduced medal)[9]
• 2007 – A street in Kraków is to be named in his honour.[10]
• 2009 – A street in Wieliczka was named in his honour[11]
• 2011 – An elaborate interactive Google Doodle inspired by The Cyberiad was created and published in his honor for the 60th anniversary of his first published book: The Astronauts.[12][13][14][15]
• 2013 – two planetoids were named after Lem's literary characters: 343000 Ijontichy, after Ijon Tichy and 343444 Halluzinelle, after Tichy's holographic companion Analoge Halluzinelle from German TV series Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot