Fault Lines, her memoir,[37] was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 1993, and her poetry collection Illiterate Heart won the 2002 PEN Open Book Award.[15][38] In 2002, she was awarded the Imbongi Yesizwe Poetry International Award.[12] She was the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award from the South Asian Literary Association for contributions to American literature.[7][36] In 2016, she received a Word Masala award from the Word Masala Foundation.[39][40]
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