Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses ...

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

In this episode of arts24, Eve Jackson sits down with one of the most celebrated British-Turkish novelists of our time, Elif Shafak. With over 20 books translated into more than 50 languages, Shafak ...

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today. Show more Kirsty Young's castaway ...

We are acting as if we have no memory. It's just pure collective amnesia that I find very worrying. In 2003 we've seen the statues of Saddam being toppled down and hailed as a big revolution. And ...