- 1979: Sahitya Akademi Award (Bengali): – Aranyer Adhikar (novel)[22]
- 1986: Padma Shri for Social Work[23]
- 1996: Jnanpith Award – the highest literary award from the Bharatiya Jnanpith[22]
- 1997: Ramon Magsaysay Award – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts for "compassionate crusade through art and activism to claim for tribal peoples a just and honorable place in India's national life."[2][24][25]
- 2003: Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[26]
- 2006: Padma Vibhushan – the second highest civilian award from the Government of India[22]
- 2007: SAARC Literary Award[27]
- 2009: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize[28]
- 2010: Yashwantrao Chavan National Award[29]
- 2011: Banga Bibhushan – the highest civilian award from the Government of West Bengal[30]
- 2012: Nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature
- 2014 : Mamoni Raisom Goswami National Award for Literature constituted by Asam Sahitya Sabha and sponsored by Numaligarh Refinery Ltd., Assam
- On 14 January 2018, Google honored Mahasweta Devi on her 92nd birth anniversary, celebrating her work by creating a doodle on her.[31]
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