 Faldbakken received the Bjørnsonstipendet in 2002.His publishers are Cappelen in Norway, Lindhardt og Ringhof in Denmark, Johnny Kniga in Finland, Blumenbar and Heyne in Germany, Mondadori in Italy, Suma in Spain, Limus in Russia, LWU in Lithuania, and Harvill in the UK.Matias Faldbakken is represented by Simon Lee Gallery in London, in Norway by Standard (Oslo) and in Berlin by Galerie Neu.