Awards
- 1994 Fiction Award The Caribbean Writer
- 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, Barnard College
- Pushcart Short Story Prize for "Between the Pool and the Gardenias"
- National Book Award nomination for Krik? Krak!
- 1996 Best Young American Novelists for Breath, Eyes, Memory by Granta
- Lila-Wallace-Reader's Digest Grant
- 1999 American Book Award for The Farming of the Bones
- The International Flaiano Prize for literature
- The Super Flaiano Prize for The Farming of the Bones
- 2005 The Story Prize for The Dew Breaker
- 2007 National Book Award nomination for Brother, I'm Dying
- 2007 The National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying
- 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Brother, I'm Dying
- 2009 MacArthur Fellows Program Genius grant
- 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York
- 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Create Dangerously
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