Awards and recognition

Fellowships and other personal honours

2002: UEA Writing Fellow, University of East Anglia[102]
2003: National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Fellowship Award[103]
2004: Elected a Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (est.1820)[104]
2006: British Council Fellow, Georgetown University, USA[103]
2006: Elected a Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (est.1754)[38]
2009: Awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature[105]
2015: The Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, USA[106]
2017: Elected an Honorary Fellow, the English Association[29] (est.1906)
2018: Elected a Fellow of Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance[107][108]
2019: Financial Times: list of 14 women gamechangers[109][110]
2020: Awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours for services to literature[111]
2020: British Book Awards: Author of the Year[112][113]
2020: Elle 50 – list of Britain's gamechangers[114]
2020: Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage (est. 1683), Trinity College Dublin
2020: The Bookseller 150 power list[115]
2020: GG2 Woman of the Year Award[116]
2020: The Vogue 25 for 2020 – list of Britain's 25 most influential women
2020: Voted one of 100 Great Black Britons[117]
2021: Glamour magazine Woman of the Year, Gamechanging Author Award
2021: Honorary International Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (est. 1780)
2021: President of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance
2021: The UK Black Powerlist 100 (1st year)
2021: The Bookseller 150 power list[118]
2021: Vanity Fair magazine Challenger Award
2022: Appointed President, Royal Society of Literature (2022–2026)[119]
2022: Forbes "50 over 50" honoree for the Europe, Middle East & Africa region[120]
2022: Honorary Doctor of Arts and Letters, King's College London
2022: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Queen Mary University of London[121]
2022: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Glasgow Caledonian University[122]
2022: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Greenwich
2022: Honorary Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London 2022: Honorary Doctor of Arts, London South Bank University
2022: Honorary Fellow, CILIP, The Library and Information Association
2022: Sky Arts: Britain's 50 Most Influential Artists of the Past 50 years (No. 26)
2022: Soho House Awards: Writer
2022: Stylist magazine Remarkable Women Awards: Writer of the Year[123]
2022: The UK Black Black Powerlist 100 (2nd year)
2023: The UK Black Powerlist 100 (3rd year)
2023: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Exeter[124]
2023: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Sheffield[125]

2023: A Goodreads Top Book of the last decade (2013-2023)

2023: Black Excellence Awards - Outstanding Contribution to Literature[126]
2024 The UK Black Powerlist 100 (4th year)

Lara (1997)

1999: EMMA Best Book Award for Lara[103]

The Emperor's Babe (2001)

2000: Arts Council England Writer's Award 2000, for The Emperor's Babe[38]
2010: The Emperor's Babe, The Times (UK) "100 Best Books of the Decade"[32]

Blonde Roots (2008)

2009: Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominated)[38]
2009: Big Red Read Award, Fiction and Overall (winner)[20]
2009: International Dublin Literary Award (nominated)[127]
2009: Orange Prize for Fiction (nominated)[38]
2009: Orange Prize Youth Panel Award[128][129]
2010: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, USA (finalist)[130]

Ten (2010)

2010: Poetry Book Society Commendation for Ten, co-edited with Daljit Nagra[131]

Mr Loverman (2013)

2014: Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize (winner)[43][132][133]
2015: Triangle Publishing Awards: Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, USA[134][135]

Girl, Woman, Other (2019)

2019: Goodread's Choice Award Best Fiction (finalist)[136]
2019: Gordon Burn Prize (finalist)
2019: Booker Prize (winner)[50][137]
2019: Shelf Awareness best fiction of 2019[138]
2020: Australian Book Industry Awards (longlisted)[139]
2020: British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year[112]
2020: Ferro-Grumley Award USA (finalist)[134]
2020: Indie Book Award for Fiction[140][141]
2020: Le Prix Millepages, France[142]
2020: Lifetime Honorary Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford[143]
2020: Lifetime Vice President, Royal Society of Literature
2020: Orwell Prize (finalist)[144]
2020: Reading Women Award[145]
2020: The Glass Bell Awards (finalist)[146]
2020: Visionary Honours Awards (finalist)[147][148]
2020: Women's Prize for Fiction (finalist)[149]
2021: European Literature Award, Holland (finalist)
2021: Freedom of the Borough Award, Royal Borough of Greenwich[150]
2021: International Dublin Literary Award (finalist)[151][152]
2021: Nielsen Gold Bestseller Award[153]
2021: Person of the Year – as the 151st honoree of The Bookseller's 150 Power List.
2021: Premio Gregor von Rezzori (Italy) (finalist)
2021: Premio Lattes Grinzane (Italy) (finalist)
2022: Bestsellery Empiku Award (Poland) (finalist)[154]
2022: Plebiscyt Ksiazka Roku 2021/ Literatura Piekna (Poland) (finalist)

Manifesto (2022)

2022: Visionary Honours Book of the Year 2021 (finalist)
2023: Prix de Libraires du Quebec, Canada (finalist)
2023: Grand Prix des Lecteurs, France (finalist)
2024 Praeses Elit Award, Trinity College Dublin

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