Earl Lovelace - Awards

Awards

• 1963, British Petroleum Independence Award, 1963, for While Gods Are Falling.
• 1966, Pegasus Literary Award, for outstanding contributions to the arts in Trinidad and Tobago.
• 1977, awards for best play and best music for Pierrot Ginnard.
• 1980, Guggenheim fellowship.
• 1985, Jestina’s Calypso voted the most original play at the Trinidad & Tobago Drama Festival.
• 1986, National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
• 1988, Chaconia Medal (Gold) from the government of Trinidad & Tobago.
• 1997, Best Book, Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book), 1997, for Salt.
• 2002, Honorary Doctorate of Letters from University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, 2002.
• 2011, Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature, from Regional Council of Guadeloupe, for Is Just a Movie.
• 2012, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Port of Spain, Trinidad, for Is Just a Movie.
• 2012, Caribbean-Canadian Literary Award.
• 2012, Lifetime Literary Award from the National Library and Information System Authority (Nalis), Trinidad.