 During the war in Bosnia, he personally visited the besieged city of Sarajevo, together with Drago Jančar, Niko Grafenauer and Boris A. Novak, to take supplies collected by the Slovene Writers' Association to the civilian population.In 2002 Taufer received the Jan Smrek Prize, the highest literature prize given to foreign writers in Slovakia.In 2011 he became president of the Slovene Writers' Association.