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Awards & recognition
- honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II · 2024
- Erdal Öz Literature Award · 2015
- German-Turkish friendship Prize · 2015
- Officer of the Legion of Honour · 2012
- honorary doctor of Sofia University · 2011
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- honorary doctor of Yale University · 2010
- Norman Mailer Prize · 2010
- honorary doctorate from University of Rouen · 2009
- Ovid Prize · 2008
- Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin · 2007
- honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense · 2007
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 2006
- Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association · 2005
- Prix Médicis étranger · 2005
- Ricarda-Huch-Preis · 2005
- Dublin Literary Award · 2003
- Grinzane Cavour Prize · 2002
- International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Award — Best Original Screenplay · 1991
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize · 1990
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- honorary doctor of Saint Petersburg State University
- honorary doctorate from the American University of Beirut
- honorary doctorate of the University of Tirana
- International Booker Prize · 2016 · nominated
