Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses ...

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today. Show more Kirsty Young's castaway ...

Three graduate school roommates—a Moroccan, a Turk and a Spaniard—are strange bedfellows in a potentially inhospitable land in this painstakingly multicultural but rather discombobulated first novel ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elif Shafak and Max Porter are among the authors and activists headlining English PEN’s centenary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this autumn. The event will run for ...

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

The new novel from Booker-shortlisted Elif Shafak uses a single drop of water to connect three lives, two great rivers and a lost poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. There are Rivers in the Sky opens in a ...

Elif Shafak is the leading female writer and a vastly popular voice in Turkish literature. She explains the importance of storytelling to Talking Books’ Razia Iqbal. Elif Shafak is one of the most ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Julia Phillips 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD By Elif Shafak The Booker Prize became ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elif Shafak and Max Porter are among the authors and activists headlining English PEN’s centenary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this autumn. The event will run for ...