- 1986: Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme[107][108]
- 1987: Prix de l'Académie française (La vie scélérate)[109]
- 1988: Liberatur Prize (Ségou)[110][111]
- 1993: Puterbaugh Prize[112]
- 1997: Prix Carbet de la Caraibe (Desirada)[5][7]
- 1999: Marguerite Yourcenar Prize (Le coeur à rire et à pleurer)[7]
- 1999: Lifetime Achievement Award from New York University's Africana Studies program[7]
- 2001: Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government[7]
- 2005: Hurston & Wright Legacy Award (Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?)[113]
- 2007: Prix Tropiques de l'Agence française de développement (Victoire, les saveurs et les mots)[114][115]
- 2008: Trophée des Arts Afro-Caribéens for Les Belles Ténébreuses. Paris[16][116]
- 2009: Trophée des Arts Afro-Caribéens for Lifetime Achievement. Paris[16][116]
- 2010: Grand prix du roman métis (En attendant la montée des eaux)[117]
- 2018: New Academy Prize in Literature[31]
- 2020: PEN Translates award for Waiting for the Waters to Rise[118][119]
- 2021: Prix mondial Cino Del Duca[120]
- 2021: PEN Translates award from English PEN for The Gospel According to the New World[121]
- 2022: Royal Society of Literature International Writer[122][123]
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