Awards
- 1991: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Quantity Theory of Insanity
- 1998: Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys
- 2008: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for "The Butt"
- Self has been shortlisted three times for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award: in 2002 for Dorian, in 2004 for "Dr Mukti" in Dr Mukti and other tales of woe and in 2006 for The Book of Dave.
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