Prizes and Awards
- 1984 Commonwealth Poetry Prize - Slave Song
- 1984 Quiller-Couch Prize (Cambridge) - Slave Song
- 1991 Guyana Prize for Literature - The Intended
- 1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), shortlist - A Harlot's Progress
- 2004 Raja Rao Award for Literature (India)
- 2007 Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award
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