 In the U.K., she held the Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford for the 2017–2018 academic year where she is an honorary fellow.Shafak has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels.Shafak's first novel, "Pinhan" ("The Hidden"), was awarded the Rumi Prize in 1998, an honor bestowed on the best work in mystical literature in Turkey.