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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is a renowned Turkish-British novelist. She has published 19 books, with 12 of them being novels, and her works have been translated into 56 languages. Shafak has received numerous accolades, including being shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is considered one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Turkish literature.

Elif Shafak was born in Strasbourg, France. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK. She also holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College.

As an author, Shafak began with Pinhan, which won the Rumi Prize in 1998. Her next novel, Mahrem, won the Turkish Authors' Association's Best Novel Award in 1999.

She continued to gain recognition with Bit Palas in 2002, later shortlisted for the Independent Best Foreign Fiction in 2005. Her first English novel, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, was released in 2004.

The Bastard of Istanbul (2006) was long-listed for the Orange Prize and brought significant attention, including legal challenges in Turkey.

The Forty Rules of Love, published in 2009, became a bestseller in Turkey, selling over 200,000 copies. This success was followed by Honour in 2012, nominated for both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction.

In 2014, Elif Shafak released The Architect's Apprentice, which was chosen for The Reading Room, a book club created by the Duchess of Cornwall. Her 2017 novel, Three Daughters of Eve, set in Istanbul and Oxford, was widely acclaimed.

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019), which tells the story of an Istanbul sex worker, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Island of Missing Trees (2021) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Besides her novels, Shafak's essays, collected in four books, reflect her advocacy for women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and freedom of expression. Additionally, she has contributed to global publications and spoken at TED Global.

Currently, Elif Shafak is an honorary fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford University.

Her personal life includes a move from Istanbul to London in 2013, where Shafak lives with her husband, Turkish journalist Eyüp Can Sağlık and their two children.

Photo credit: www.elifsafak.com.tr
years of life: 25 October 1971 present

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That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.
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the indifference deep underneath had just whispered to her not to mind other people’s opinions since they would make no difference at the end of the day.
Rustem Dikhanovhas quotedlast year
There were more important things than passion and love in a marriage, such as understanding, affection, compassion, and that most godlike act a person could perform, forgiveness. Love was secondary to any of these. Unless, that is, one lived in novels or romantic movies, where the protagonists were always larger than life and their love nothing short of legend.

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This book had a deep deep impression it genuinely jus made me learn so much and all those materialistic stuff doesn't matter .
This unlocked a new me and if not all I'll try to follow at least some rules loved the book loved everything about it

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