He was also lecturer at the University of Southampton, where he was awarded a personal chair in 1994.

An orchestra awards a musician a chair or seat based on ability.

When he was twenty-two years old he was awarded an endowed chair in the University of Madrid.

He was awarded a personal chair in 1994.

He was awarded a personal chair at Bristol University in 1996.

During the course of his studies, he was invited to perform and awarded a chair with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra.

In 1996 he was awarded an endowed chair at Urbana, where he teaches creative writing.

Later, he was awarded a scholastic chair in the topics of theology and Hebrew in Lyon.

In recognition of this he was awarded an honorary chair by Durham University, and the new medical library bears his name.

He became an assistant professor at Moscow, but was not awarded a "chair" until 1954 because of his political undesirability.