As evidence, the larger body of his works has been honored with awards from such literary organizations as the French National Federation for Culture, the European Committee of Prestige and the European Academy of Arts. In further evidence stand his remarkably large and diverse body of readers, and the thousands of students in some 20 colleges and universities who study his work and strive, as he himself once put it, “to write, write and then write some more. And never allow weariness, lack of time, noise, or any other thing to throw me off my course.”