Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak writes in Turkish as well as in English. Her focus is targeted to the cultural space of her country, while also to the universal. She has a deep understanding of her Turkishness, without being a prisoner in a cage. She is a cosmopolitan very well defined by her roots.

For Elif Shafak Istanbul is a she-city, an old woman with a young heart, forever dreaming of new stories and new loves.

I will soon start to write about her books. I think I will start with The Bastard of Istanbul and The Saint of Incipient Insanities.

• Elif Shafak in Today's NY Times
• Elif Shafak about the Politics of Fiction
• The Street of the Cauldron Makers
• Five Books To Understand Modern Turkey
• Meditating the Proper Approach to God
• I Started to Read the Forty Rules of Love
• Reading The Forty Rules of Love
• The Mosque of All Prophets
• The Void
• I Started to Read Black Milk
• Reading Further Black Milk
• What Can't You Say
• The Architect's Apprentice, a new book by Elif Shafak
• A Bit about The Gaze

(A Life in Books)

(Sufi)