"Leipziger Buchpreis". From left: Svetlana Alexievich, Bundespresident Roman Herzog (Chancellor of the FRG), 1999

OXFAM NOVIB - PEN AWARD. Holland. 2007

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE PRIZE (NBCC ), New York, 2006

PREMIO SANDRO ONOFRI PER IL REPORTAGE NARRATIVO. Italy. Rome, 2002

ERIC-MARIA-REMARQUE-FRIEDENSPREIS. Germany. Osnabruck. 2001.

HORSPIEL. ROBERT GEISENDORFER PREIS (der Horfunkpreis), Deutsche Akademie der Darstellende Kunste. Germany. Berlin, 2000.

"HERDER - PREISE", Alfred Toepfler Stiftung. Germany.Vienna. 1999.

"DAS POLITISCHE BUCH". "Sonder preis der Arbeit - gemeinsc"haft der Verlager, Buchhandler und Bibliothekare Friedrich - Ebert - Stiftung". Germany. Bremen.1998.

"LEIPZIGER BUCHPREIS ZUR EUROPAISHEN VERSTANDIGUNG". Germany, Leipzig. 1998.

"THE MOST FRANKLY MEN", "Glasnost" Found. Russia. Moscow. 1998.

"TRIUMPH", Russia. Moscow. 1997.

ANDREY SINIAVSKY PRIZE - "For Honor and Respect in Literature". Russia. Moscow. 1997.

"KURT TUCHOLSKI - PREIS". Swedish PEN, Stockholm. 1996.

KOMSOMOL PRIZE, USSR. Moscow. 1986.

KONSTANTIN FEDIN PRIZE, USSR. Moscow. 1985.

NIKOLAJ OSTROVSKY PRIZE, USSR. Moscow. 1985 .