When Elif Shafak's novel The Bastard of Istanbul was published in her home country, the best-selling author was was accused of "public denigration of Turkishness." She was eventually acquitted. As ...

While Turkey was once a bastion of secular, moderate rule, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it’s become increasingly authoritarian. Award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, who has often clashed with ...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Saramago’s work? He’s not an easy writer. His writing is very dense, particularly the way he plays with punctuation marks. But once you ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with renowned Turkish novelist Elif Shafak about the earthquake in Turkey, as a human tragedy and a possible political catalyst. The scope of devastation and death across ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: But I want to ask you to tell me about the trees and the nature and the natural world through which you tell this story. What made you focus on that? ELIF SHAFAK, AUTHOR, “THE ...

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The writer Elif Shafak tells stories of Istanbul, Turkey, a city she used to call home. ELIF SHAFAK: Almost like a pendulum, I would leave, and then I would miss the city. I would come back. Again, I ...

When Elif Shafak's novel The Bastard of Istanbul was published in her home country, the best-selling author was accused of "public denigration of... Elif Shafak: Writing Under a Watchful Eye When Elif ...

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 ...