Nobel Prize in Literature, 2021
Awarded for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
RFI Témoin du Monde (Witness of the World) Award, France, 2007. Received for his novel By the Sea.
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book), 200.6. Awarded for Desertion.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction), 2001. By the Sea was a finalist for this award.
Booker Prize for Fiction, 1994. Paradise was shortlisted for this prestigious award.
