Awards, Honours, Recognition, Nominations
2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other
2022 President, Royal Society of Literature (current)
2024 Fair Saturday Award, Fair Saturday Foundation, Bilbao, Spain
2024 Praeses Elit Award, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2024 The UK Black Powerlist 100 (4th year)
2023 London Chamber of Commerce Black Excellence Awards, Outstanding Contribution to Literature,
2023 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Sheffield
2023 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Exeter
2023 Prix de Libraires du Quebec, Canada – finalist
2023 Grand Prix des Lecteurs, France – finalist
2023 The UK Black Powerlist 100 (3rd year)
2022 Honorary Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London
2022 Honorary Doctor of Arts and Letters (D.Litt), Kings College London
2022 Honorary Doctor of Arts (D.Litt) London South Bank University
2022 Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt), Queen Mary University of London
2022 Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt), University of Greenwich
2022 Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt), Glasgow Caledonian University
2022 Honorary Fellow, CILIP, The Library and Information Association
2022 A Forbes ’50 over 50′ honoree for EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa region)
2022 Sky Arts: No. 26 on the list of Britain’s 50 Most Influential Artists of the Past 50 years
2022 Soho House Awards for creatives: Writer Award
2022 Stylist Magazine Remarkable Women Awards: Writer of the Year
2022 The UK Black Powerlist 100 (2nd year)
2022 A Big Jubilee Read, Girl, Woman, Other – one of 70 books chosen to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
2022 Plebiscyt Ksiazka Roku 2021/ Literatura Piekna (Poland) for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2022 Visionary Honours Book of the Year 2021 for Manifesto – finalist
2022 President, Royal Society of Literature
2021 Named ‘Person of the Year’ as the 151st honoree of The Bookseller 150 Powerlist
2021 Appointed an International Honorary Member (IHM), American Academy of Arts & Sciences (est. 1780)
2021 Nielsen Bookscan Gold Bestseller Award
2021 ‘Freedom of the Borough’, awarded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich
2021 Vanity Fair magazine Challenger Award
2021 Glamour magazine Women of the Year: Gamechanging Author Award:Girl, Woman Other
2021 GG2 Woman of the Year Award for Girl, Woman Other
2021 The UK Black Powerlist 100 (1st year)
2021 Appointed President, Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance
2021 European Literary Award (Holland) for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2021 Premio Lattes Grinzane (Italy) for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2021 Premio Gregor von Rezzori (Italy) for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2021 Dublin International Literary Award for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2021 Prix Les Afriques (Switzerland) for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2020 Honorary Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford (est. 1096)
2020 Appointed a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature (est. 1820)
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 for Girl, Woman Other
2020 Indie Book Award for Fiction for Girl, Woman Other
2020 Le Prix Millepage Award (France) for Girl, Woman Other
2020 Reading Women Award for Girl, Woman Other
2020 The Bookseller 150 – Powerlist
2020 The Vogue 25 list of Britain’s most influential women 2020
2020 Elle, one of 50 Game-changers 2020
2020 Selected as one of 100 Great Black Britons
2020 OkayAfrica ‘100 Women for 2020’
2020 Publishing Triangle Awards (USA) for Girl, Woman Other – longlist
2020 Australian Book Industry Awards for Girl, Woman Other – longlist
2020 The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2020 Visionary Honors Award for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2020 Glass Bell Awards for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2019 Gordon Burn Prize for Girl, Woman Other – finalist
2019 Financial Times Women Game Changers of 2019
2019 Evening Standard Progress 1000 most influential Londoners
2019 The Bookseller 150 – power list
2018 Appointed a Fellow, Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance (est. 1950)
2017 Appointed an Honorary Fellow, The English Association (est. 1906)
2015 The Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, USA (est. 1769)
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): for Blonde Roots – finalist
2010 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Ten poetry anthology
2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Blonde Roots – longlist
2009 The Big Red Read Award: fiction winner for Blonde Roots
2009 The Big Red Read Award: overall winner for Blonde Roots
2009 Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
2009 Orange Prize Youth Panel Award for Blonde Roots
2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for Blonde Roots – longlist
2006 Appointed a Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (est. 1754)
2006 British Council Writing Fellow, Georgetown University, USA (est. 1789)
2004 Appointed a Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (est. 1820)
2003 NESTA Fellowship Award for The Emperor’s Babe
(National Endowment of Science, Technology & The Arts)
2002 Creative Writing Fellow, University of East Anglia (est. 1963)
2000 The Arts Council of England Writers Award 2000 for The Emperor’s Babe
1999 EMMA Best Book Award for Lara
Academic Honours – Brunel University London
2022 CBASS Lecturer of the Year Award
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
*for outstanding contributions to the University and the international community
Notable books of the year
Manifesto
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021
A Times Book of the Year 2021
A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2022
A Washington Review of Books Favourite Book of 2022
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2022
A Kirkus Best Multicultural Book of 2022
Apple Books, Best 15 Books of 2021
A Waterstones Best Book of 2021
A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022
A Daunts Book of the Year 2021
A Stylist Best Book for Christmas 2021
Woman & Home Best Books of 2021
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, (2000-2010)
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
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