Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”
“The literary mind cannot be isolationist.”
October 22, 2024
By Elif Shafak
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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 50 languages. Her latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize, and selected as Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Shafak is an honorary fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford University.
75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever
Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia
June 24, 2024
By Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak on What It Means to Belong in Many Places at Once
"It worries me immensely, seeing the walls rise higher and higher."
October 9, 2020
By Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak on the Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz
A Writer Torn Between Longing for Freedom and Loyalty to Country
September 25, 2019
By Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak on Ways of Knowing and the Women in Her Life
A Granddaughter Remembers
October 17, 2018
By Elif Shafak
