It was the summer of 1980s in Strasbourg, France when Elif Shafak’s parents separated. Only a child then, she remembers fragments of those formative years: A small flat in a banlieue along with books, ...

In a move hailed as a victory for freedom of speech, a Turkish court acquitted Elif Shafak, a UA assistant professor in Near Eastern Studies, saying there was no evidence that she “”insulted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today. By Stephen Markley New novels by Elif ...

Elif Shafak: ‘I used to want to run away into my imagination’ (Ferhat Elik) To be a novelist in Turkey means something different than it does in Britain. “It is a heavy experience,” says Elif Shafak, ...

Editor’s Note: Elif Shafak is Turkey’s most-read woman writer and an award-winning novelist. She writes in both English and Turkish, and has published 13 books, including: “The Bastard of Istanbul,” ...

Elif Shafak's protagonist is a young elephant keeper at the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul Credit: Photo: Alamy Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red (2001) focused on miniaturist painters in Istanbul over nine days ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Elif Shafak about her book, "The Island of Missing Trees." It's about the trauma of civil war imperiling future generations. The well-traveled novelist Elif Shafak once ...