British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak tells the BBC her writing is guided by intuition rather than a rigid plan.

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 ...

Elif Shafak: ‘I used to want to run away into my imagination’ (Ferhat Elik) To be a novelist in Turkey means something different than it does in Britain. “It is a heavy experience,” says Elif Shafak, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This tear-jerker has been hailed as one of the top reads of 2025, leaving readers utterly spellbound. There's nothing more disheartening than a book that fails to meet expectations. This novel, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Elif Shafak's protagonist is a young elephant keeper at the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul Credit: Photo: Alamy Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red (2001) focused on miniaturist painters in Istanbul over nine days ...