Awards
Literary Awards
Attila József Prize
National Literary Award
2000
Laureate of the Republic of Hungary
National Literary Award
2009
Robert Schuman Foundation "European Women Leading the Way"
EU Recognition
2025
My Homeland Award
Literary Award
2025
Milán Füst Prose Writer's Award
Literary Award
2025
Honorary Citizen of Zugló
Literary Award
2022
László Bertók Poetry Prize
Literary Award
2022
Erzsébetváros Literary Scholarship
Literary Award
2020
Alföld Award
Literary Award
2014
Magda Szabó–Tibor Szobotka Memorial Award
Literary Award
2011
Mozgó Világ (Moving World) Prose Award
Literary Award
2010
Artisjus Literary Award
Literary Award
2010
Mozgó Világ (Moving World) Prose Award
Literary Award
2010
Bárka Award
Literary Award
2010
Nice Pebble Award
Literary Award
2009
Mozgó Világ (Moving World) Prose Award
Literary Award
2009
Salvatore Quasimodo Memorial Award
Literary Award
2008
Bertha Bulcsu Memorial Award
Literary Award
2007
Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize
Italian Literary Award
2006
Soros scholarship
Other
1999
Robert Graves Prize
Literary Award
1996
Tibor Déry Award
Literary Award
1996
Attila Zoltán Award
Award for Translation
1996
Literary Translator's Award
Award for Translation
1994
Gyula Illyés Prize
Literary Award
1994
Zsigmond Móricz Scholarship
Literary Award
1993
Soros scholarship
Other
1992
Paris Scholoarship
Other
1990-1992
Cosmopolitan Award
Honorary award
1990
Awards of the Books
English PEN Translates Award (T: George Szirtes)
2025
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, shortlist
2025
EBRD Literary Prize shortlist
2024
Merítés Award for Fiction
2023
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, shortlist
2023
Woman's Journal Literary Award
2022
English PEN Translators Award
2022
Children's book of the year
2022
TA First Translation Prize, shortlist
2020
Aegon Art Award, shortlist
2018
Aegon Art Award, shortlist
2017
Marcel Reyes Award for Translation
2016
Deutsche Internationaler Literaturpreis, shortlist
2015
Sándor Márai Award
2007
Fine Arts award for Literature
2005
Gemini Award
2005
Hungarian Mothertongue Writers 1st Prize
2004
Children's book of the year
2003
Palládium prize
2002
Vas István prize
2001
Miklós Radnóti Memorial Medal
1989