Awards and Honours
- 1987 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book) - Incidents at the Shrine
- 1987 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction - Incidents at the Shrine
- 1988 Guardian Fiction Prize - Stars of the New Curfew (shortlisted)
- 1991 to 1993 Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1991 Booker Prize - The Famished Road
- 1993 Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize - The Famished Road
- 1994 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) -The Famished Road
- 1995 Crystal Award (World Economic Forum)
- 1997 Honorary Doctorate of Literature, awarded by University of Westminster
- 2000 Premio Palmi (Italy) - Dangerous Love
- 2001 Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate of Literature, awarded by University of Essex
- 2004 Honorary Doctor of Literature, awarded by University of Exeter
- 2008 International Literary Award Novi Sad (International Novi Sad Literature Festival, Serbia).
- 2009 Honorary Doctorate of Utopia, awarded by University voor het Algemeen Belang, Belgium
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate, awarded by School of Oriental and African Studies
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate of Arts, awarded by the University of Bedfordshire
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