Recognition
- 1977 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 1980 Literature Prize of the University City of Marburg
- 1984 Manuscripts prize of Styria
- 1987 Austrian Prize for Literature
- 1988 Prize of the Frankfurt Authors Foundation
- 1990-1993 Robert Musil scholarship
- 1991 International Bodensee-Culture Prize
- 1993 Merit Award of the City of Vienna
- 1994 Anton Wildgans Prize
- 1997 Erich Fried Prize
- 1997 Franz Kafka Literature Prize of the city of Klosterneuburg
- 1998 Berlin Literature Prize
- 2001 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature
- 2003 Nestroy Theater Prize Best Author for Chorphantasie
- 2005 Kleist Prize
- 2006 Arthur Schnitzler Prize
- 2006 Nestroy Theatre Prize Best Author for Die versunkene Kathedrale (The Sunken Cathedral)
- 2008 Nestroy Theatre Prize Best Author for Free Fall
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