 In 1986, Karau was awarded the Goethe prize of the City of Berlin.After the German reunification she wrote some novels about the destiny of people in the GDR, in the Wende and in the New states of Germany after 1990.She also published more children's books like "Bolle, der freundliche Hund" (1994), "Küsse auf Eis " (1997) and "Das kommt in der besten Familie vor" (2003).