Her highly acclaimed novel Herba moura won the Xerais Prize for novels, the AELG Prize, the Irmandade do Libro á Autora Prize, the Benito Soto Prize for the best novel of 2005 and the Premio de la CrÃtica Española.
She also received the Rafael Dieste Theatre Prize in 2007 for her play Unha primavera para Aldara.
Her work has been translated into several languages.
She provides her students of Linguistics with a new perspective on a discipline which continues to have roots in the European and Latin tradition.