AWARDS AND HONORS
- Yaşar Culture and Education Foundation Writing Award (1978)
- Yeni Asır Newspaper – Columnists Among Us Award (1998)
- TÖMER Mother Tongue Story Competition Award (1999) [Runaway Tale]
- TÖMER Mother Tongue Stories to the Year 2000 Competition Award (2000) [“Water Green,” Deep Slit]
- BU Publishing House – Children’s Humorous Stories Award (2001) [Dilatory]
- Samim Kocagöz Short Story Award First Place (2002) [“The Age of Pigeons,” Deep Slit]
- Ömer Seyfettin Short Story Award First Prize (2002)
- BU Publishing House – Children’s Novel Award First Place (2002) [On the Trail of Lost Sounds of Mustafa Kemal]
- TUDEM Publishing House – Literature Award for Young Adult / Novel Category (2003) [Blue Times]
- ÇGYD Awards Best Children’s Poetry Award (2004) [Blue Moon]
- Laborers’ Stories Award (2005), ÇGYD Design Award (2008) [“Eyes of a Miner,” Don’t Go, You Won’t Come Back]
- ÇGYD – Last 15 Years (Between 1994 and 2008) Best Children’s Poetry Book Special Prize (2009) [Blue Moon]
- Çamlaraltı College – Authors Who Support Republic with Their Works (2011)
- Kosovo 2013’s Best Children’s Author Award (2013)
- ÇGYD – Best Book Desigtn of the Year Award (2015) [Jammy Poems]
- Found in Translation Anthology (2015) [Skelaton of the Lost Library]
- Scholastic Picture Book Award (2017) Short List [The Flying Grandpa, co-authored with A. Akal]
- 2018 H. C. Andersen Award Türkiye Nominee
- 2022 ALMA Award Türkiye Nominee
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