Krak! 1996: Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists[13] Lila-Wallace-Reader's Digest Grant 1999: American Book Award for The Farming of Bones The International Flaiano Prize for literature The Super Flaiano Prize for The Farming of Bones 2005: The Story Prize for The Dew Breaker 2005: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award[14] for "The Dew Breaker" 2007: National Book Award nomination for Brother, I'm Dying 2007: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying 2008: Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Brother, I'm Dying 2008: Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award for Brother, I'm Dying 2009: MacArthur Fellows Program Genius grant 2009: The Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association 2011: Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York 2011: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Create Dangerously 2012: Smith College Honorary Degree 2013: Yale University Honorary Degree[15] 2014: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, shortlist for Claire of the Sea Light[16] 2014: PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award 2017: Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from the University of the West Indies Open Campus[17][18] 2017: Neustadt International Prize for Literature[19] 2018: Presidents Award, St. Martin Book Fair.[20] 2019: National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) winner for Everything Inside[21] 2020: The Story Prize for Everything Inside [22] 2020: Vilcek Foundation Prize in Literature[23]