Dorfman's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and performed in over 100 countries. Besides poetry, essays and novels— "Hard Rain", winner of the Sudamericana Award; "Widows"; "The Last Song of Manuel Sendero"; "Mascara"; "Konfidenz"; "The Nanny and the Iceberg", and Blake's "Therapy"—he has written short stories, including "My House Is on Fire", and general nonfiction including "The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds". He has won various international awards, including two Kennedy Center Theater Awards. In 1996, with his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for "Prisoners in Time." His poems, collected in "Last Waltz in Santiago" and "In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land", have been turned into a half-hour fictional film, "Deadline," featuring the voices of Emma Thompson, Bono, Harold Pinter, and others.