Prizes and Awards
- 1983 Minority Rights Group Award
- 1984 University of Kent T. S. Eliot Prize (for University of Kent students)
- 1985 GLC Literature Award
- 1985 Malcolm X Prize for Poetry (for Mama Dot)
- 1989 Guyana Poetry Prize (for Mama Dot and Airy Hall)
- 1993 Commission for Racial Equality Race in the Media Award (for Sweet Thames)
- 1994 David Higham Prize for Fiction (for The Longest Memory)
- 1994 Whitbread First Novel Award (for The Longest Memory)
- 1996 Guyana Prize for Literature (for Dear Future)
- 1997 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (for Feeding the Ghosts)
- 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize (Shortlist)
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