Gw mau tau Penghargaan dari Julia Franck

1995 Open Mike prize of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin

1998 Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium of the Akademie der Künste

2000 3sat award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition

2005 Rowswitha Prize of the city of Bad Gandersheim

2010 short list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Blind Side of the Heart

2010 short list for the Wingate Literary Prize for the Jewish Quarterly

2014 Longlist des Independent Foreign Fiction Prizefür Back to Back.