article_snippet.sent: Awarded an OBE at Buckingham Palace for 'services to literature' 2007:
article_snippet.sent: Knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace .
article_snippet.sent: As Sir literary career took off Sir won a host of prizes and was handed a total of nine honorary doctorates, before being awarded an OBE in 1998, and was finally knighted in 2009 'for services to literature'.