AWARDS & HONORS

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 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