Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak

Award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator

Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. She is also a political commentator and an advocate for women’s rights, minority rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. Shafak writes in both Turkish and English and has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels, including the bestselling “The Bastard of Istanbul” and “The Forty Rules of Love.” Her books have been translated into 47 languages. Shafak is a TED Global speaker, a member of the Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy in Davos, and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). In 2010, she served as a Special Envoy for the EU-Turkey Cultural Bridges Programme and was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In 2020, she was a judge for the PEN Nabokov Prize.

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Elif 's Books

The Gaze (1999)

The Gaze

Elif Shafak
The Flea Palace (2002)

The Flea Palace

Elif Shafak
The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2004)

The Saint of Incipient Insanities

Elif Shafak

The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak

Honour

Elif Shafak
The Architect’s Apprentice (2013)

The Architect’s Apprentice

Elif Shafak
Three Daughters of Eve (2016)

Three Daughters of Eve

Elif Shafak

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Elif Shafak
The Island of Missing Trees (2021)

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

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