Elif Shafak, author portrait
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Elif Shafak

ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including The Island of Missing Trees, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel Award, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into fifty-six 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.
There Are Rivers in the Sky
The Architect's Apprentice
Honor
Black Milk
The Forty Rules of Love
The Bastard of Istanbul

Books

There Are Rivers in the Sky
The Architect's Apprentice
Honor
Black Milk
The Forty Rules of Love
The Bastard of Istanbul

Books for Women’s History Month

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