Elif Shafak

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Elif Shafak is Turkey’s most-read woman writer and an award-winning novelist. She has published thirteen books, including nine novels and a nonfiction memoir, Black Milk. Her latest novel, The Architect’s Apprentice, was published by Penguin UK in November 2014. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages. Shafak is also active on social media (@Elif_Safak), with more than 1.6 million followers.

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak
New York. Knopf. 2024. 496 pages. From first page to last, this novel is colored by the water sign. It begins with a raindrop and ends with a flood. Any drop of water at all holds the…
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak
New York. Bloomsbury. 2021. 368 pages. SHORTLISTED FOR THE Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022, Elif Shafak’s thirteenth novel, The Island of Missing Trees, revisits Shafak’s much…
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak
New York. Bloomsbury. 2019. 320 pages. The tale of Tequila Leila begins with an end. The first page of Elif Shafak’s new novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, finds Leila in a…
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Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak
New York. Bloomsbury USA. 2017. 384 pages. Istanbul and Oxford are over 1,600 miles apart, yet Turkish author Elif Shafak pulls them together in her tenth novel, Three Daughters of Eve. Shafa…
The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak
London / New York. Viking. 2014 / 2015. ISBN 9780241004920 / 978052542971 The best historical novels impose familiar tensions upon unfamiliar locales and eras, making place and time come alive with ac…
Storytelling, Fake Worlds, and the Internet

January 2015
Elif Shafak
Photo by Yuri Numerov Writers from those parts of the world where democracy has for too long remained an unfulfilled dream cannot be apolitical. Over the years, as media freedom…