Niederungen, short stories, censored version published in Bucharest 1982. Uncensored version published in Germany 1984. Published in English as Nadirs in 1999.[5] Drückender Tango ("Oppressive Tango"), stories, Bucharest 1984 Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt, Berlin 1986. Published in English as The Passport, Serpent's Tail, 1989 ISBN 9781852421397 Barfüßiger Februar ("Barefoot February"), Berlin 1987 Reisende auf einem Bein, Berlin 1989. Published in English as Traveling on One Leg, Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press, 1992.[6] Wie Wahrnehmung sich erfindet ("How Perception Invents Itself"), Paderborn 1990 Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel ("The Devil is Sitting in the Mirror"), Berlin 1991 Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger ("Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter), Reinbek by Hamburg 1992 Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett ("A Warm Potato Is a Warm Bed), Hamburg 1992 Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm ("The Guard Takes His Comb"), Reinbek by Hamburg 1993 Angekommen wie nicht da ("Arrived As If Not There"), Lichtenfels 1994 Herztier, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994. Published in an English translation by Michael Hofmann as The Land of Green Plums, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1996[7] Hunger und Seide ("Hunger and Silk"), essays, Reinbek by Hamburg 1995 In der Falle ("In a Trap"), Göttingen 1996 Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet, Reinbek by Hamburg 1997. Published in English as The Appointment, Metropolitan Books/Picador, New York/London 2001 Der fremde Blick oder das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne ("The Foreign View, or Life Is a Fart in a Lantern"), Göttingen 1999 Im Haarknoten wohnt eine Dame ("A Lady Lives in the Hair Knot"), poetry, Reinbek by Hamburg 2000 Heimat ist das, was gesprochen wird ("Home Is What Is Spoken There"), Blieskastel 2001 Der König verneigt sich und tötet ("The King Bows and Kills), essays, Munich (and elsewhere) 2003 Die blassen Herren mit den Mokkatassen ("The Pale Gentlemen with their Espresso Cups"), Munich (and elsewhere) 2005 Atemschaukel, Munich 2009
1981 Adam-Müller-Guttenbrunn Sponsored Prize the Temeswar Literature Circle 1984 Aspekte Literature Prize 1985 Rauris Literature Prize 1985 Encouragement Prize of the Literature Award of Bremen 1987 Ricarda-Huch Prize of Darmstadt 1989 Marieluise-Fleißer Prize of Ingolstadt 1989 German Language Prize, together with Gerhardt Csejka, Helmuth Frauendorfer, Klaus Hensel, Johann Lippet, Werner Söllner, William Totok, Richard Wagner 1990 Roswitha Medal of Knowledge of Bad Gandersheim 1991 Kranichsteiner Literature Prize 1993 Critical Prize for Literature 1994 Kleist Prize 1995 Aristeion Prize 1995/96 City-writer of Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim 1997 Literature Prize of Graz 1998 Ida-Dehmel Literature Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Herztier / The Land of Green Plums 1999 Franz-Kafka Prize 2001 CICERO Speaker Prize 2002 Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille of Rhineland-Palatinate 2003 Joseph-Breitbach Prize (together with Christoph Meckel and Harald Weinrich) 2004 Literature Prize of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2005 Berlin Literature Prize 2006 Würth Prize for European Literature und Walter-Hasenclever Literature Prize 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
