 He was designated a People's Writer of the Belarusian SSR in 1972 and was awarded numerous prizes, including the Lenin prize for his novels "People of the Marsh" ("«Людзі на балоце»") and "The Storm's Breath" ("«Подых навальніцы»").The central place in Melezh's work is made up by the novels of the "Polesye Chronicle" ("«Палеская хроніка»")