[1] For her book Olrac (2000) she won the Prijs van de Kinder- en Jeugdjury Vlaanderen in 2002.
[2] For her 50th book Kelderkind Dieltiens won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs in 2013.
[2][3][4] The book draws inspiration from the life of Kaspar Hauser, a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell.
[4] In 2012, Dieltiens also won the West-Vlaamse Provinciale Prijs Letterkunde for this book and it was also nominated for a Boekenleeuw.
[2][3] Her son Gust Van den Berghe (born 1985) is a renowned film director.