Writing Honours
2019 Booker Prize Winner for Girl, Woman, Other
2020 President, Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance
2020 Lifetime Honorary Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford (est. 1096)
2020 Lifetime Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature (est. 1820)
2020 The Bookseller 150 – power list
2020 The Black Power List 100 for 2021
2020 Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage, Trinity College Dublin (est. 1683)
2020 Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
2020 British Book Awards: Author of the Year
2020 British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year
2020 Indie Book Award for Fiction
2020 Le Prix Millepage (award) (France)
2020 Reading Women Award
2020 The Vogue 25 list of Britain’s most influential women
2020 Elle 50 – Game-changers 2020
2020 One of 100 Great Black Britons Campaign/Book
2020 OkayAfrica 100 Women for 2020
2020 Publishing Triangle Awards (USA) – nominated
2020 Australian Book Industry Awards – nominated
2020 The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction – finalist
2020 The Women’s Prize – finalist
2020 Glass Bell Awards – finalist
2019 Gordon Burn Prize – finalist
2019 Financial Times Women Game Changers of 2019
2019 Evening Standard Progress 1000 most influential Londoners
2019 The Bookseller 150 – power list
2018 Lifetime Fellow, Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance
2017 Lifetime Honorary Fellow, The English Association (est. 1906)
2015 The Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, USA
2015 Triangle Awards: Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction (USA) – Mr Loverman
2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize – Mr Loverman
2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (USA): finalist – Blonde Roots
2010 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation – Ten poetry anthology
2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: nominated for Blonde Roots
2009 The Big Red Read Award: fiction & overall winner – Blonde Roots
2009 Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
2009 Orange Prize Youth Panel Award – Blonde Roots
2009 Orange Prize for Fiction – longlist – Blonde Roots
2006 Appointed a Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (est. 1754)
2006 British Council Creative Writing Fellow, Georgetown University, USA
2004 Lifetime Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (est. 1820)
2003 NESTA* Fellowship Award – The Emperor’s Babe
2002 Creative Writing Fellow, University of East Anglia
2000 The Arts Council of England Writers Award 2000: The Emperor’s Babe
1999 EMMA Best Book Award for Lara
*NESTA= National Endowment of Science, Technology & The Arts
Notable books of the year
Girl, Woman, Other
35 + selections in newspapers, magazines
& the media
visit page for Girl, Woman, Other
Mr Loverman
An Observer Book of the Year
Blonde Roots
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Prospect Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year
Soul Tourists
An Independent Book of the Year
An Independent on Sunday Book of the Year
The Emperor’s Babe
A Times Book of the Decade, 2009
A Telegraph Book of the Year
A Sunday Independent Book of the Year
A Times Book of the Year
An Ireland Sunday Independent Book of the Year
A Times Best of Summer Books
Lara
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Telegraph Book of the Year
A Weekly Journal Book of the Year
Academic Honours – Brunel University London
2020 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Staff
2017 Teach Brunel Awards: CBASS Best Small Module Award
2015 CBASS Award for Excellence,
2014 Appointed The Public Orator
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