Among honours received during her literary career, Emecheta won the 1978 Jock Campbell Prize[1] from the New Statesman (first won by Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God)[31] for her novel The Slave Girl,[4][32] and she was on Granta magazine's 1983 list of 20 "Best of Young British Novelists".[16][32][33] She was a member of the British Home Secretary's Advisory Council on Race in 1979.[7]
In September 2004, she appeared in the "A Great Day in London" photograph taken at the British Library, featuring 50 Black and Asian writers who have made major contributions to contemporary British literature.[34][35] In 2005, she was made an OBE for services to literature.[16]
She received an Honorary doctorate of literature from Farleigh Dickinson University in 1992.[36]
