In 1984 Hughes won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to children's literature, in 1999 she was awarded an OBE, and in 2000 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Hughes won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to children's literature. This was in 1984. She was awarded an OBE. This was in 1999. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. This was in 2000.