1993 Prize for the best Debut of the Year; 2000 Russian Booker Prize; 2005 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; 2006 Big Book Award; 2006 National Best-Seller Prize; 2007 Grinzane Cavour Prize; 2011 Big Book Award; 2011 International Literature Award; 2022 Premio Strega Europeo in Italy
Coordinator of the Spanish Network for Research on Central and Eastern Europe
Assistant Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid
Professor of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University and Distinguished Professor, University of Alicante
Professor of Slavic Philology
Director of the Centre for Slavic Cultures, University of Granada