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 ...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Tell me how important this trial is for Turkey. Are people paying attention? What does it mean in Turkey right now? ELIF SHAFAK, TURKISH NOVELIST: It is a very important case. And ...
** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo. A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you’re an NPR fan (which I’m betting you are, otherwise why are you reading this blog?), you may have already heard about Turkish author Elif Shafak and the firestorm surrounding her novel The ...
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 ...
** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo. A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, ...