Although the incident in many ways is no surprise, the birth of the main character in Elif Shafak’s latest novel (short-listed for this year’s Booker Award) provides a telling context for Turkey’s ...

Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak‘s Booker Prize-nominated novel “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World,” which is set in the world of Istanbul sex workers, will be adapted into a feature film ...

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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I had been mesmerised by Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul — I couldn’t get over its sassy women who live exactly as they want to, care two hoots for convention, and sail through calamities ...