● Travel grant from the
Authors Foundation, 1985
● Travel grant from the Augustine Foundation, 1986
● ”The Feather and the Rose” receives the Ministry of
Culture's Children's Book Prize, 1987
● Working
grant from the National Art Foundation, 1997
● Working
grant from the Danish Dramatists Society, 1997
● Personal
invitation to the literature festival in Caen, France, "Les Boreáles de
Normandie", November 1998
● Working grants
from the State Literature Council, 1999 and 2000
● Working
Grant from the Authors Foundation, 2000
● Working Grant from the State
Literature Council, 2003
● Working Grant from the Authors Foundation, 2004
● The Local
Councils' School Library Association's Author Prize, 2004 - for "The Warrior" trilogy.
● "The Warrior" trilogy is accepted on
to the list of honour for the international Hans Christian Andersen
Award (IBBY), September 2004
● "The Lord of the Dragons" easy-reading
serial receives the Childrens' Librarians' Culture Prize, November 2004
● My collected works nominated for IBBY´s Hans
Christian Andersen Award 2006
● "The Whisper
of Demons" receives the Bookshop Assistants' Childrens' Book Prize, 2005
● "The Whisper of
Demons" receives Danish Radio's Orla Prize, 2006 (note: this award is
made on the basis of readers' votes, ed.)
● Nominated for prize as
Denmark's Favourite Danish Author 2007, awarded by bookshop chain Bog og
Idé (Books and Ideas)
● Nominated in two categories for Danish Radio's Orla
Prize, 2007 - children's book category for Sigurd's Saga
and teenage book category for The Crystal Heart (book 3 in
serial The Mira Chronicles)
● Golak, vol.1 of The Deadlands trilogy, receives the
Danish Ministry of Culture's Author Prize for Children and Young Adults,
June 2009.
● Nominated
for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2010.
● Nominated for
Danish Radio's Orla Prize for Golak, vol.1 of The Deadlands trilogy.
● Nominated for the newspaper Weekendavisen's
readers' prize for Genfødt (Resurrection),
vol.2 of The Deadlands trilogy.
● Awarded Pædagogisk LæringsCenterForening (School Librarians Association) Children's Book Prize 2015 for collected works.
