√1994: Rabobank Lente Prize for Literature - 'T
1994: Anton Wachter Prize - Blue Mondays
1996: Golden Dog Ear - Blue Mondays
1998: Charlotte Köhler Stipendium - The Comfort of Slapstick
2000: Anton Wachter Prize - The Story of My Baldness (Marek van der Jagt)
2000: AKO Literature Prize - Phantom Pain
2002: NRW Literature Prize - complete oeuvre
2002: Golden Owl - In Praise of Mankind
2002: Aspekte Prize - The Story of My Baldness
2002: Golden Owl - In Praise of Mankind
2002: Aspekte Prize - The Story of My Baldness
2004: AKO Literature Prize - The Asylum Seeker
2004: Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize - The Asylum Seeker
2007: Golden Owl - Tirza
2007: Libris Prize - Tirza
2009: Constantijn Huygens Prize - complete oeuvre
2010: Prix Littéraire des Jeunes Européens, 'coup de cœur' - Tirza
2010: Frans Kellendonk Prize - complete oeuvre
2011: KANTL Prize - Tirza
2013: Cutting Edge Award - The Man Without Illness
2017: Gouden Ganzenveer - complete oeuvre