Kurt Johansson, Swedish Olympic sport shooter died he was , 97.

Kurt Johansson is the first one on the left.

Kurt Ivar Björn Johansson was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Summer Olympic Games died he was , 97. In 1948 in London he placed fourth in the Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres event. In 1960 in Rome he finished 19th in the same event and 15th in the Men's 50 metre rifle prone competition. Finally, in 1968 in Mexico City, he participated in the Mixed Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Mixed Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, and Mixed Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres tournaments, placing 17th, 20th, and 26th respectively.

(25 February 1914 – 8 August 2011)

Johansson was born in Stockholm and competed out of Södermalm Liljeholmens Skf.^[1] He was a successful international competitor outside of the Olympic Games and gained a reputation at the 1947 ISSF World Shooting Championships in his native Stockholm. There he captured individual silver in the 300 m prone and kneeling positions, gold in the 300 m standard position, and bronze in the 50 m prone position, as well as team gold in the 300 m standard position and bronze in the 300 m rifle three position competition. Prior to World War II he had won bronze in the 50 m rifle three positions tournament at the 1939 ISSF World Shooting Championships. At the 1949 edition he won individual silver in the 300 m prone position in addition to team gold in the 300 m standard rifle, silver in the 50 m rifle three positions tournament, and bronze in the 300 m rifle three position event. In 1952 he earned team silver medals in the 300 m standard and three position competitions, as well as the 50 three position event. He captured only two medals, an individual silver in the 50+100 m prone and a team bronze in the 300 m three positions tournament, in 1954, prior to breaking from the international scene.^[2]
Following his experiences at the 1960 Summer Olympics, Johansson captured individual bronze in the 300 m rifle prone and team gold in the 50 m rifle prone competitions at the 1962 ISSF World Shooting Championships. In 1966 he took his final individual gold medals — gold in the 300 m rifle prone and bronze in the 300 m rifle kneeling —^[2] and was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for his sporting achievements that year, most notably being the oldest-ever ISSF World Championship gold medalist at the time.^[3] He died on 8 August 2011, at the age of 97, in Strängnäs, Sweden.

Medal record
Competitor for  Sweden
Men's shooting
ISSF World Shooting Championships
Gold	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle standard Individual
Gold	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle standard Team
Gold	1949 Buenos Aires	300 m rifle standard Team
Gold	1962 Cairo	50 m rifle prone Team
Gold	1966 Wiesbaden	300 m rifle prone Individual
Silver	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle prone Individual
Silver	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle kneeling Individual
Silver	1949 Buenos Aires	300 m rifle prone Individual
Silver	1949 Buenos Aires	50 m rifle three positions Team
Silver	1952 Oslo	300 m rifle standard Team
Silver	1952 Oslo	300 m rifle three positions Team
Silver	1952 Oslo	50 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1954 Caracas	50+100 m rifle prone Individual
Bronze	1939 Lucerne	50 m rifle three positions Individual
Bronze	1947 Stockholm	50 m rifle prone Individual
Bronze	1947 Stockholm	50 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1949 Buenos Aires	300 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1954 Caracas	300 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1962 Cairo	300 m rifle prone Individual
Bronze	1966 Wiesbaden	300 m rifle kneeling Individual

 

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Ruth Brinker, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand, died from vascular dementia he was Ruth Brinker, 89, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand, died from vascular dementia. he was 89.

Ruth Marie Brinker was an American AIDS activist and founder of the nonprofit, Project Open Hand  died from vascular dementia. he was 89. She began her activism in 1985 by providing food and meals to home-bound AIDS patients in San Francisco who were too ill cook or shop..

(May 1, 1922 – August 8, 2011)




Brinker was born Ruth Marie Appel on May 1, 1922, in Hartford, South Dakota.^[1] She moved to San Francisco, California, during the mid-1950s, where she married her husband, Jack Brinker, in 1957.^[1] They had two daughters, Lisa and Sara, but later divorced in 1965.^[1]
By the mid-1980s, the AIDS epidemic was sweeping through San Francisco. One of Brinker's friends, who had AIDS and corresponding malnutrition, became too weak to cook or leave his home to go grocery shopping.^[1] Brinker, who was a grandmother at the time, and a group of her friends collaborated to provide the man with meals by dividing up the month to delivering them to his home.^[1] Unfortunately, some of the volunteers went on vacation and the man died by the time they returned to San Francisco.^[1][3]
Ruth Brinker vowed not to allow the same fate happen to others in San Francisco. She had previously worked in the food service industry and as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, a similar predecessor which provides meals to people who cannot purchase or prepare meals.^[1] She began organizing volunteers on a larger basis to deliver hot meals to AIDS patients in the city. This led to the establishment of her nonprofit, Project Open Hand, which was founded in summer of 1985 by Brinker and seven of her friends.^[1][3] The organization began with a small grant of $2,000 dollars from a Zen study group and donated cookware.^[3] Project Open House has since expanded to provide meals and other services to the elderly and people with other chronic illnesses.^[1] In 1987 and 1988, Project Open House served 300 AIDS patients using an annual budget of $500,000.^[3] As of 2011, Project Open House provides 2,600 meals a day using $5.6 million in public and private donations.^[1] Brinker's nonprofit has been copied by "dozens" of organizations throughout the United States, according to the New York Times.^[1]
Ruth Brinker died from complications of vascular dementia at her home in San Francisco on August 8, 2011, at the age of 89. She was survived by her two daughters, one grandson and a great-granddaughter.

 

 

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Ray Anderson, American entrepreneur, died from cancer he was , 77.

Ray C. Anderson was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics  died from cancer he was , 77.. He was "known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance on industrial ecology and sustainability."¹Anderson died on August 8, 2011 after a 20-month battle with cancer.

(July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011)

Life and career

Anderson was an honors graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the school of industrial and systems engineering in 1956.^[4] He learned the carpet trade through more than 14 years at various positions at Deering, Milliken &Company and Callaway Mills.
Anderson founded Interface in 1973 to produce the first free-lay carpet tiles in America.^[5] Interface is one of the world’s largest producers of modular commercial floorcoverings, with sales in 110 countries and manufacturing facilities on four continents.^[6]

Environmental focus

Anderson first turned his focus toward the environment in 1994 when he read The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken,^[7] seeking inspiration for a speech to an internal task force on the company’s environmental vision. Hawken argues that the industrial system is destroying the planet and only industry leaders are powerful enough to stop it.
In 2009, Anderson estimated that Interface was more than half-way towards the vision of “Mission Zero,”^[8] the company’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by the year 2020 through the redesign of processes and products, the pioneering of new technologies, and efforts to reduce or eliminate waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy.^[9][10]
Anderson chronicled the Mission Zero journey in two books, Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model (1998) and Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose: Doing Business by Respecting the Earth (2009).^[11][12] The latter was released in paperback as Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist in 2011.

Recognition and awards

Anderson was featured several documentaries and films, such as The Corporation, (2004 Canadian documentary); The 11th Hour (2007 Leonardo DiCaprio film); I Am (2011 Tom Shadyac documentary); Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Sundance Channel series) and others.
The Interface story is the focus of the documentary film “So Right, So Smart” (2009).^[13]
Ray served a stint as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development during President Clinton’s administration, which led to him co-chairing the Presidential Climate Action Plan in 2008, a team that presented the Obama Administration with a 100 day action plan on climate.^[14] Together, he and Interface funded the creation of the Anderson-Interface Chair in Natural Systems at Georgia Tech, where Associate Professor Valerie Thomas conducts research in sustainability.^[15]
Ray Anderson received a host of accolades throughout his life, including:

• In 2007, he was named one of Time’s Heroes of the Environment.^[16]
• Inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev (1996)^[17]
• Recognized by Forbes Magazine and Ernst & Ernst, which named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996.^[18]
• The American Society of Interior Designers Design for Humanity Award (2010)^[19]
• Lifetime Achievement Award from GreenLaw (2010)^[20]
• The inaugural Global Sustainability Prize from the University of Kentucky Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (2010)^[21]
• River Guardian Award from the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (2010)^[22]
• Sustainability Award from the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF), the first time the WNSF has honored a businessman (2010)^[23]
• Pillars of EARTH Sustainable Leadership Awards given by EARTH University in Costa Rica (2010)^[24]
• Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures (2007)^[25]
• Auburn University’s International Quality of Life Award (2007)^[26]
• George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development (2001)^[27]

Under Anderson’s leadership, Interface was named to CRO magazine’s (formerly Business Ethics magazine) 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for three years.^[28] In 2006, Sustainablebusiness.com named Interface to their SB20 list of Companies Changing the World,^[29] and in 2006 GlobeScan listed Interface #1 in the world for corporate sustainability.^[30]
Anderson was former Board Chair for The Georgia Conservancy and served on the boards of the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, Rocky Mountain Institute, the David Suzuki Foundation, Emory University Board of Ethics Advisory Council, the ASID Foundation, Worldwatch Institute, and the Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability Advisory Board. He was on the Advisory Boards of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment and the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.^[31]
He was awarded 12 honorary doctorates from Northland College (public service), LaGrange College (business), N.C. State University (humane letters), University of Southern Maine (humane letters), The University of the South (civil law), and Colby College (law), Kendall College (art), Emory University (science), Central College in Pella, Iowa, (humane letters), Chapman University (humane letters), Clarkson University (science), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (philosophy).^[32]

 

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Neal Abberley, English cricketer, died from heart and lung condition he was , 67..

Robert Neal Abberley was an English cricketer. A stalwart county player, he was a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler. He was born in Stechford, Birmingham and played for his native Warwickshire from 1964 to 1979.
Despite a modest batting record (he averaged under 25 as a specialist batsman), he played over 250 times for the "Bears". He made 3 first class hundreds, with a best of 117 not out against Essex and scored his only one day hundred, 113 not out, against Hampshire.
He moved into coaching in 1980 after retiring from the game, initially as Warwickshire's Second XI coach and later with a 'roving brief' at all levels in the club.^[1] He was particularly involved in the development of Ian Bell and the England team wore black arm bands in his honour during the Test against India at Edgbaston in the days following his death..

(22 April 1944 – 8 August 2011) 

Playing career

Abberley made his First-class debut for Warwickshire in 1964 against Cambridge University, scoring a half-century in the drawn match.^[2] The following year, he made his County Championship debut against Yorkshire, but was unable to bat due to injury.^[3] In 1966, Abberley struck his first First-class century, scoring 117 not out against Essex, the highest First-class score of his career. The 1966 season proved to be Abberley's most prolific in First-class cricket, with 1315 runs scored at an average of 28.58. He toured Pakistan with an Under 25 MCC side in 1966/67, in a squad featuring a number of current and future England stars such as Mike Brearley, Dennis Amiss, Alan Knott and Derek Underwood. Abberley scored 92 and 31 in his only match on this tour, against Central Zone.

 

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Mimi Lee, American chemist, First Lady of Maryland (1977–1979), died from heart failure she was , 91.

Mathilde B. "Mimi" Lee  was an American chemist, athlete and philanthropist who served as the First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979 when her husband, then Lt. Governor Blair Lee III, became acting Governor following the departure of Governor Marvin Mandel.

(May 1, 1920 – August 9, 2011)

Biography

Early life

Lee was born Mathilde Boal on May 1, 1920, in Washington, D.C.^[2] She was named for her maternal grandmother, a distant relative of Christopher Columbus.^[1] Her mother, Jeanne de Menthon, a native of France, was a descendant of the 11th century French saint, Bernard of Menthon.^[1] Lee's father, Pierre de Lagarde Boal, was an American diplomat who served as the United States' ambassador to Nicaragua and Bolivia during the 1940s.^[2] Boal, who was fluent in English, French and Spanish, lived in ten countries by the time she completed college.^[1]
Boal graduated from Elmwood School, an exclusive all-girls school in Ottawa, Canada, where her father was stationed for a diplomatic post.^[1] She obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1943, graduating cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.^[2]
Boal took a job as a chemist with the Rockefeller Foundation in Colombia after graduating from Bryn Mawr College.^[2] She soon became engaged to Francis Preston Blair Lee III, a naval officer during World War II, whom she married in 1944.^[1] The two families, the Lees and the Boals, had previously been close friends even before the marriage.^[1] The couple had eight children.^[3]

First Lady of Maryland

Blair Lee III was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland in 1971 and became acting Governor in 1977 when Governor Marvin Mandel was charged with racketeering and stepped down on an interim basis. As Maryland's First Lady, Lee took on an unusually independent approach from her predecessors.^[2] Lee did not move to the Government House in Annapolis instead choosing to live with her children full-time at their home and farm in Silver Spring, Maryland.^[2] When speaking to the Baltimore Sun upon taking office in 1978, Governor Lee said of his wife, "Where I go, she goes. At least that's what I keep telling myself anyway. She would rather be canoeing on the Potomac, backpacking along the Appalachian Trail or teaching children to swim than preparing for a formal party."^[1] One of Lee's predecessors, former First Lady Barbara Mandel, publicly offered to act as a "sort of senior adviser" to Lee explaining the need of First Ladies to engage in ceremonies, such as ribbon cuttings and garden tours.^[4]
Lee privately and publicly disliked much of the ceremonial roles of a traditional First Lady, like the ribbon cuttings, and the practice of politics, which she called "frivolous."^[1][2] Political columnist Frank DeFilippo, who served as press secretary for Governor Mandel, said of Lee, "I normally eschew the overused word 'unique,' but Mimi truly was. I've covered first ladies going back to Avalynne Tawes, and Mimi was the only one of the bunch who truly loathed life in the mansion, which, when forced to be there, she roamed in Sunny's Surplus fatigues with cargo pockets."^[1] Lee compared the formal role of First Lady, which she called "pomp," to social functions held at U.S. embassies when she was a girl.^[2] In a 1977 article, the Washington Post took note of the unusual outlook of the new First Lady, "She disdains luncheons and fashion shows except for her favorite causes — the Red Cross, water safety and Holy Cross Hospital among others. And while some other women from ordinary backgrounds would revel in the new status, Mimi Lee admits that sometimes it's inconvenient."^[1] The Washington Post also noted that she "answers her own phone, vacuums her house, cooks for her guests."^[1] In 1977, she told the Washington Post she wanted to "throw up" whenever her family was described as an "aristocracy."^[1]
While Lee limited her time in the state capitol, she partook in her state duties when necessary.^[2] Even in Annapolis, Lee preferred sneakers, jeans and work skirts to more formal attire.^[1][2] She once expressed irritation at the cancellation of a white water rafting trip on the Shenandoah River, but later told the Washington Post in the late 1970s that she had a "lovely" time hosting The Princess Anne.^[2] Lee focused much of her official time as First Lady on volunteer functions, such as the March of Dimes or the Red Cross.^[2] An accomplished athlete, Lee taught swimming classes for the handicapped while in office.^[2] She held an annual "Beer Bash" for Maryland Democrats at her farm in Silver Spring, often cooking for the guests.^[1]
Governor Blair Lee ran for a full term as Governor in 1978, but was defeated in the Democratic gubernatorial primary by Harry Hughes.^[2][3] The Lees left office in January 1979, shortly before the end of his term, when Governor Mendel reclaimed his office for the two remaining days.^[2]

Later life

Her husband, Blair Lee, died in 1985. Lee devoted much of the rest of her life to athletic and philanthropic pursuits.^[3] Lee was an avid outdoor enthusiast throughout her life, pursuing skiing, canoeing, and camping.^[2] She became a practitioner of yoga during her tenure as First Lady and continued her athletic interests during her later life, becoming a competitive Senior athlete in swimming.^[2]
An accomplished Senior Olympian, Lee broke numerous national and Maryland swimming records while competing in the Senior Olympics during the 1990s.^[1][2][5][6] Lee also competed in the U.S. Masters Swimming Nationals, winning eight swimming competitions throughout the United States, and placed second in twenty other races.^[1] She hiked the Pyrenees between France and Spain with two of her seventeen-year old grandchildren when she was seventy years old.^[1]
Outside of the swimming pool, Lee learned German during her 80s.^[1]
Mimi Lee died of congestive heart failure at Laurel Regional Hospital in Laurel, Maryland, on August 9, 2011, at the age of 91.^[2][3] She was survived by seven of her eight children - Blair Lee IV, Joseph W. Lee, Christopher G. Lee, Erica B. Lee, Philip L. Lee, John F. Lee and Jenny Sataloff; her sister, Mary Elizabeth d'Harcourt; nineteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.^[2] Her eighth son, Pierre B. Lee, died in 1973. Lee's funeral Mass was held at her parish, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, in Silver Spring.^[3]

 

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Eleanor Josaitis, American activist, co-founder of Focus: HOPE, died from peritoneal cancer she was , 79.

Eleanor Mary Josaitis was the co-founder of Focus: HOPE died from peritoneal cancer she was , 79. She was engaged in building the legacy of the civil rights organization. For many years, she was the Associate Director of Focus: HOPE. Upon Father Cunningham's death in 1997, she became the Executive Director, and later the CEO. In 2006, she turned over the day-to-day operation to a new leadership team in order to focus her efforts on fund raising. She died of peritoneal cancer on August 9, 2011 at Livonia, Michigan.
She provided leadership and advocacy for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program and made important contributions to public awareness of hunger and malnutrition. Working with co-founder Father William Cunningham, she helped develop Centers of Opportunity education and training programs to help primarily underrepresented minorities gain access to jobs and careers. She served on numerous board and committees, including The National Workforce Alliance Board, the Michigan Council for Labor and Economic Growth, and the Advisory Board for the Arab-American and Chaldean Council. In 2002 she was named one of the most influential women in Detroit by Crain's Detroit Business.

(née Reed; December 17, 1931 – August 9, 2011)

Legacy

Josaitis was widely known and respected throughout Metro Detroit for her work in the community, and had been referred to as "Detroit's Mother Theresa" before her death.^[3] U.S. Senator Carl Levin gave the eulogy at her funeral mass, quoting her exhortation to "Recognize the dignity and beauty of every person, and take practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice."^[4]
In her memory, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit Metropolitan Affairs Coalition annually present the Eleanor Josaitis Unsung Hero Award, which "recognizes an individual who may not have yet received the widespread recognition she or he deserves for long-standing efforts to further regional cooperation and understanding."^[5]

Awards

• 1999 “Distinguished Warrior” by the Detroit Urban League
• Anti-Defamation League's Women of Achievement Award
• Arab American Institute Foundation's Khalil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award
• Assumption University^{[disambiguation needed ]}'s Christian Culture Series Gold Medal Award
• Boy Scouts of America's Good Scout Award
• City Year Detroit Lifetime of Idealism Award ^[6]
• Clara Barton Ambassador Award ^[7]
• Detroit NAACP Presidential Award
• Education Award from Society of Automotive Engineers
• Ford Employees African-Ancestry Network's 2002 Heritage Award
• Jeffery W. Barry Award for Educational Excellence and Service from Walsh College ^[8]
• Marygrove College's Theresa Maxis Award
• National Council of Negro Women's Achiever Award^[9]
• Peacemaker Award from Wayne State University's Center for Peace and Conflict Studies^[10]
• The Detroit News Michiganian of the Year^[11]
• The National Council of Women of the United States Inc.'s Woman of Conscience Award
• University of Michigan School of Business Administration Leadership Award
• Wade McCree Award from the Federal Bar Association^[12]
• Woman of the Year by YWCA of Western Wayne County ^[13]
• Wonder Woman Award by the Women's Survival Center of Oakland County
• National Caring Award from the Caring Institute in Washington D.C.

 

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Roman Opałka, French-born Polish painter died he was , 79.

                  Roman Opałka     was a French-born Polish painter  died he was , 79.
Opałka was born on August 27, 1931, in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Lodz. He later earned a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He moved back to France in 1977.^[1] Opałka lived in Teille, near Le Mans, and Venice.^[2] He died at age 79 after falling ill while on holiday in Italy. He was admitted to a hospital near Rome and died there a few days later, on August 6, 2011, three weeks before his 80th birthday.


(August 27, 1931 – August 6, 2011)

Work

In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opałka began painting numbers from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a 'detail', took up counting where the last left off. Each 'detail' is the same size (196 x 135 cm), the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw. All details have the same title, "1965 / 1 – ∞"; the project had no definable end, and the artist pledged his life to its ongoing execution: 'All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life', 'the problem is that we are, and are about not to be'.
Over the years there were changes to the process. In Opałka's first details he painted white numbers onto a black background. In 1968 he changed to a grey background 'because it's not a symbolic colour, nor an emotional one', and in 1972 he decided he would gradually lighten this grey background by adding 1 per cent more white to the ground with each passing detail. He expected to be painting virtually in white on white by the time he reached 7777777 (He did not use commas or number breaks in the works): 'My objective is to get up to the white on white and still be alive.' As of July 2004, he had reached 5.5 million.^[2] Adopting this rigorously serialized approach, Opałka aligned himself with other artists of the time who explored making art through systems and mathematics, like Daniel Buren, On Kawara, and Hanne Darboven.^[3] He was represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert ^[4] and in Venice by Galleria Michela Rizzo.

Roman Opałka by Lothar Wolleh

In 1968 Opałka introduced to the process a tape recorder, speaking each number into the microphone as he painted it, and also began taking passport-style photographs of himself standing before the canvas after each day's work.
In 2007 Opałka participated at the symposium "Personal Structures Time-Space-Existence" a project initiated by the artist Rene Rietmeyer.
The final number he painted was 5607249^[5].

Exhibitions

Opałka participated in many of the art world’s most important international exhibitions, including Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in 1977; the Sao Paolo Bienal in 1987; and the Venice Biennale, in 1995, 2003 and 2011.^[3] He was represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert,^[4] in Venice by Galleria Michela Rizzo and, for many years, at John Weber in New York.
In 2003, Les Rencontres d'Arles exhibited his work through "L’œuvre photographique"'s exhibition (the curator was Alain Julien-Laferrière).

Collections

Opałka's works can be found in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and New York’s Museum of Modern Art among others.

Recognition

Opałka won the celebrated Grand Prize of the 7th International Biennial of Arts and Graphics of Cracow in 1969, the C. K. Norwid Art Critics Award in 1970, Franceʼs National Painting Prize in 1991 and Germanyʼs Kaiser Prize in 1993. He was named Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and of Letters) in France.

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