2018, Yang Lian won the first prize for Poetry of “He Ze Du Lin Cup”, Shanghai, China; 2018 Premio International NordSud (2018 NordSud International Prize) for Literature in Italy; 2018 Janus Pannonius International Poetry Grand Prize in Hungary； 2018L’Aquila International Literature Prize. 2017, Yang Lian won the Shanghai Literature Magazine Prize for Poetry; and Narrative Poem, Yang Lian's autographical book-length poem selected as a recommended translation by Poetry book Society in UK, as well as won the English PEN Award. 2016, Yang Lian was awarded The 2016 Pacific International Poetry Prize in Taiwan. 2015, Yang Lian has won The Li Bai Nomination Poetry Prize; Zuo Pin (Works) Magazine's Prize for Sequence; The First Long Poem Prize (Fo Shan City, China); Great Kunlun Cultural Prize․Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry. 2014, Yang Lian has won Capri International Poetry Prize, Italy. 2013, Yang Lian's “Concentric Circles Trilogy” (Yi, Concentric Circles, Narrative Poem) has won first “Tianduo” prize for the long poems; 2012, Yang Lian has won Nonino International Literature Prize in Italy, the juries of the prize were presided by V S Naipaul. Yang Lian was also awarded the Flaiano International Poetry Prize (Italy, 1999) and his Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems (1999) and then Narrative Poem (2017) were Poetry Books Society Recommended Translation (UK). Yang Lian has been elected a board member of PEN International in 2007, and re-elected in 2011.