- Tamgha-i-Pakistan, Presidential Award, Pakistan 2021 – for Human Rights work for Jammu&Kashmir
- Drassow’s Literature Peace Prize, Denmark 2014
- Silverstar Peter Pan Prize, Sweden 2013
- Prize of the Tea-Spoon Order, anti-fanaticism, Sweden 2013
- Michael L. Printz Honor Award 2011, literary excellence, USA
- The Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Award 2011, USA
- Die Zeit, Luchs, 2010, Germany
- Le Prix Libbylit 2008, Rien, for best children’s book in the French language
- The National Prize of the Cultural Ministry, best children’s book 2001, Denmark
LITERARY GRANTS
- The National Arts Foundation Denmark, literary grants (2020, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 12 etc)
- The National Arts Foundation Denmark, largest Three-year writing stipend (2002)
- Stipend, Literary Colloquium, Berlin, Germany (2013, 2012)
- Authors’ Account (2006, 2001)
- BG-Foundation (2000)
- Harald Kidde’s Foundation (1999)
- Beckett Foundation (1999)
HONORS, BOARD & JURY MEMBERSHIPS
Ambassador, European Cultural Heritage Sharing for Germany, 2018
Jury of the German Peace Prize, 2014-2019
Board of the Danish Fiction Writers’ association, 2000-2004 and 2019-20
Jury of Finnegan’s List, European Authors’ Society 2013
Short-Film Jury of the Guadalajara Film Festival, Mexico 2013
Editorial Board Lettre Internationale, 2005-2007
Borad of Danish PEN, 2001-2003
