Awards and Honours
- 1969 Cholmondeley Award
- 1971 Obie Award for Best Foreign Play (for Dream on Monkey Mountain)
- 1972 OBE
- 1981 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ("genius award")
- 1988 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- 1990 Arts Council of Wales International Writers Prize
- 1990 W. H. Smith Literary Award (for poetry Omeros)
- 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2008 Honorary doctorate from the University of Essex
- 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize (for poetry collection White Egrets)
- 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (for White Egrets)
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