- 1969: Cholmondeley Award[66]
- 1971: Obie Award for Best Foreign Play (for Dream on Monkey Mountain)[66]
- 1972: Officer of the Order of the British Empire[17]
- 1981: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("genius award")[66]
- 1988: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry[39]
- 1990: Arts Council of Wales International Writers Prize[66]
- 1990: W. H. Smith Literary Award (for poetry Omeros)[39]
- 1992: Nobel Prize in Literature[39]
- 2004: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement[19]
- 2008: Honorary doctorate from the University of Essex[24]
- 2011: T. S. Eliot Prize (for poetry collection White Egrets)[4]
- 2011: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (for White Egrets)[3]
- 2015: Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award[67]
- 2016: Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Lucia[25]
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