Freedom to read is imperiled in a world that is ill at ease with the idea of freedom...of thought, of feeling, of difference. No one knows this better than Elif Shafak, the Turkish author of 20 books ...

Award-winning Turkish-British author Elif Shafak has written 19 books, including 12 novels. She writes in both Turkish and English, and her works have been translated into numerous languages. She was ...

The well-traveled novelist Elif Shafak once made a discovery about a well-traveled tree. She was living in the United States when she learned about the fig. ELIF SHAFAK: When I was in Michigan, Ann ...

The scope of devastation and death across Turkey and Syria is hard to hold in our minds. Human beings often want to look away. We are going to turn now to one of Turkey's most esteemed writers. Elif ...

The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak's new work is part of an anthology that won't be printed until 2114. She's followed Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell by submitting a book to The Future Library, ...

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today. By Stephen Markley New novels by Elif ...

Boyd Tonkin called her “A writer who weds the modern and the mystic,” when he interviewed her for the Independent newspaper in July 2007. On the occasion of her nomination for the Orange Prize, bianet ...