Elif Shafak is a British-Turkish novelist, essayist, and academic. She is one of the most widely read Turkish authors in the ...

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 ...

Author cites Brexit and the climate crisis as examples of previous generations ‘breaking’ their future The author Elif Shafak has said she thinks “there’s a scream building up” inside many young ...

When the British-Turkish author Elif Shafak was a child, she observed that there were two types of stories: ones that were widely shared and others that were forgotten or silenced. She came to this ...

This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcasThe Island of Missing Treest episode: ‘Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘Writers are the memory keepers’’ Lilah Raptopoulos Welcome to Life ...

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 ...

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak has spoken out against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan so forcefully that no one would question her political courage. In her essays and interviews, she has decried her ...

It is tempting to read Elif Shafak’s latest novel, The Architect’s Apprentice, as a love letter to Istanbul and its Ottoman past, or even a kind of apology to the city she left behind when she moved ...