Elif Shafak is one of our foremost storytellers. The author of There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Bastard of Istanbul, the Booker Prize-shortlisted 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World and ...

Elif Shafak: ‘As a novelist in Turkey, you can find yourself put on trial, prosecuted ... Now, two decades and 11 books later, Shafak is one of the UK’s most popular novelists.

What makes Elif Shafak‘s books so engrossing is how expertly she is able to draw together narratives that appear, at first, completely disparate. The most recent example of this was the ...

In 2006, Elif Shafak was charged with "insulting Turkishness" after the release of her book The Bastard of Istanbul. Speaking with Richard and Yalda on The World podcast, she warns she sees ...

New novels by Elif Shafak and Casey McQuiston, a biography of a gay cultural icon, a dystopian tale of A.I. gone awry — and more. What to Read Find Your Next Book ...

Had you gone looking for Elif Shafak as she wrote her most recent novel, you might have found her in a house by the Thames, listening to heavy metal. “I don’t like silence much,” says the ...

Elif Shafak: ‘As a novelist in Turkey, you can find yourself put on trial, prosecuted ... Now, two decades and 11 books later, Shafak is one of the UK’s most popular novelists.