![]() In 1999 he received the Martin Luther King Junior Award for Excellence in Writing. Clarke has also received a Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature (1992) and in 1998 he was invested with the Order of Canada. In 2003 he had a private audience with Queen Elisabeth in honour of his Commonwealth Prize for his novel, The Polished Hoe, which also won the Giller Prize in 2002. ![]() In 1999 his ninth novel, The Question, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. The Origin of Waves won the Rogers Communications Writers' Development Trust Prize for Fiction in 1997. ![]() Storm of Fortune, the second novel in his Toronto Trilogy about the lives of Barbadian immigrants, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award in 1973. His latest work, a long-form poem titled Where the Sun Shines Best (Guernica Editions), was published in 2013. ![]() Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe in 2002, Austin Clarke has published 11 novels, six short-story collections, four memoirs, and two non-fiction pieces. ![]()
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