 He was awarded a 1983 MacArthur Fellowship in Literary Studies.He won the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation, in 1988.Manheim's 1961 translation of Günter Grass's "Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum") was elected to fourth place among outstanding translations of the previous half century by the Translators Association of the Society of Authors on the occasion of their 50th anniversary in 2008.