In 1998 he married Beverly Reid, a Jamaican. In 1992 Brathwaite took up the position of Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, subsequently dividing his residence between Barbados and New York. In 1994, Brathwaite was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for his body of work, nominated by Ghanaian poet and author Kofi Awoonor, edging out other nominees including; Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer, and Chinua Achebe. In 2002 the University of Sussex presented Kamau Brathwaite with an Honorary Doctorate. In 2004, after his retirement from New York University, Brathwaite began chronicling a Second Time of Salt, musing on what he deemed a "cultural lynching." In 2006, he was the sole person that year to be awarded a Musgrave gold medal by the Institute of Jamaica, with eight silver and bronze medals going to other recipients. In 2010, Brathwaite reported the theft of the medal, as well as other items from his New York City home in the previous four years. Brathwaite was Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at New York University and resided in Cow Pasture, Barbados. He died aged 89 on 4 February 2020, and was accorded an official funeral on 21 February. Posthumous recognition and legacy Shortly before his death, Brathwaite was offered and had accepted the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, presented annually at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Announcing that the award, which recognises his contribution as a literary critic, literary activist, editor, and author on topics of Caribbean literature, as well as honouring the year of his 90th birthday, would be presented to his family in Barbados at a ceremony March, Bocas founder and director Marina Salandy-Brown said: "It now seems even more significant to honour him and, in this time of mourning, it is a small consolation to know that news of the award brought Prof Brathwaite pleasure in his final days." On 22 October 2020, a commissioned portrait of Brathwaite, painted by Errol Lloyd, was unveiled at his alma mater Pembroke College, Cambridge. Honours and awards 1970: Cholmondeley Award 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship 1983: Fulbright Fellowship 1987: Order of Barbados (CHB) 1994: Neustadt International Prize for Literature 1999: Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from International Poetry Forum 2002: Honorary doctorate, University of Sussex 2006: Griffin Poetry Prize, International Winner 2006: Gold Musgrave Medal for Literature from the Institute of Jamaica 2007: President's Award,