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Elif Shafak

Biography

Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish author of 13 novels, including THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into 56 languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.

Elif Shafak

Books by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak - Fiction, Women's Fiction

From the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD comes a rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal.

The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak - Fiction

The Bastard of Istanbul is the story of two families, one Turkish and one Armenian American, and their struggle to forge their unique identities against the backdrop of Turkey's violent history. This exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the tension between the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it.

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