Awards
- 1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest Award (Turkey) for his novel Karanlık ve Işık (co-winner)
- 1983 Orhan Kemal Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons
- 1984 Madarali Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel The House of Silence
- 1990 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (United Kingdom) for his novel The White Castle
- 1991 Prix de la Découverte Européenne (France) for the French edition of Sessiz Ev : La Maison de Silence
- 1991 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Turkey) Best Original Screenplay Secret Face
- 1995 Prix France Culture (France) for his novel Kara Kitap : Le Livre Noir
- 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) for his novel My Name Is Red : Mon Nom est Rouge
- 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) for his novel My Name Is Red
- 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (Ireland) for his novel My Name Is Red
- 2005 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Germany)
- 2005 Prix Médicis Etranger (France) for his novel Snow : La Neige
- 2005 Ricarda-Huch Prize
- 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature (Sweden)
- 2006 Washington University's Distinguished Humanist Award (United States)
- 2006 Puterbaugh Award (United States)
- 2008 Ovid Award (Romania)
- 2010 Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement (USA)
- 2012 Sonning Prize (Denmark)
- 2012 Legion D'honneur (France)
- 2014 The Mary Lynn Kotz Award (USA) for The Innocence of Objects
- 2014 Tabernakul Prize (FYR Macedonia)
- 2014 The European Museum of the Year Award (Estonia)
- 2014 Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage
- 2015 Aydın Doğan Foundation Award (Turkey), for his novel A Strangeness In My Mind
- 2015 Erdal Öz Literary Prize (Turkey), for his novel A Strangeness In My Mind
- 2016 The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award (“Foreign Literature” category, Russia) for his novel A Strangeness In My Mind
- 2016 Milovan Vidaković Prize in Novi Sad (Serbia)
- 2017 Budapest Grand Prize (Hungary)
- 2017 Lampedusa Prize (Italy)
- 2017 Literary Flame Prize (Montenegro)
Doctorates (Honorary Degrees)
- 2007 Free University of Berlin, Department of Philosophy and Humanities
- 2007 Tilburg University
- 2007 Boğaziçi University, Department of Western Languages and Literatures
- 2007 Georgetown University
- 2008 Madrid University
- 2003 American University of Beirut
- 2017 Accademia di Bella Arti di Brera
- 2017 St. Petersburg State University
- 2018 University of Crete
Honours
- 2008 Membership of the American Academy for Arts and Literature
- 2008 Membership of the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences
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