Awards
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Dancing in the Dark
- 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Crossing the River
- 2000 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1994 Lannan Literary Award
- 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Crossing the River
- 1993 Guggenheim fellowship
- 1987 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, The European Tribe
- 2012 Best of the James Tait Black, shortlist, Crossing the River
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