[2][3][4][5] Her work has been translated into English, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Norwegian.
She won a Yunus Nadi Award in 2016 for her novel Laughter of the Barbarian.
Among other accolades, she is a recipient of the Cevdet-Kudret-Literature Award, the France-Turquie Literary Award, and was named laureate of the German Friedrich Rückert Prize.
[6][7][8] The English translation of her novel Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend) won both the TA First Translation Prize and an English PEN Award.
[10] As a screenwriter, she co-wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film Pandora's Box (Turkish: Pandora'nın Kutusu) with director Yeşim Ustaoğlu.