John Fosse has been awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (the Booker of Scandinavia) and the Norwegian Ibsen Prize, among others: 1998 Nynorsk Literature Prize1997 Aschehoug Prize1999 Dobloug Prize2003 Norsk kulturråds ærespris2003 Nynorsk Literature Prize2003 Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France (2003)2005 Brage Prize2005 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav2007 The Swedish Academy Nordic Prize2007 The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs' Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis2010 The Ibsen Award2014 European Prize for Literature2015 Nordic Council's Literature Prize