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Elif Shafak


Turkey (b.1971)

Elif Şafak is a Turkish author, columnist and speaker. She has been called Turkey's most popular female novelist.Şafak has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels. She writes fiction in both Turkish and English.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Elif Shafak recommends
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The Glassmaker (2024)
Tracy Chevalier
"Spellbinding... Chevalier at her fabulous best. A rich, vivid and gently enchanting novel."
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Dust Child (2023)
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
"Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful."
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Cyclorama (2022)
Adam Langer
"Adam Langer is that rare combination of a writer. He has a sharp eye to details and explores human relations with keen insight and wry humor, and at the same time shows profound compassion to our fragile existences and longings."

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Books containing stories by Elif Shafak
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Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier

Awards
2023 Nielsen Bestseller Award for Fiction - Silver : The Island of Missing Trees

Award nominations
2023 British Book Award for Page-turner of the Year (nominee) : The Island of Missing Trees
2022 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Island of Missing Trees
2021 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Island of Missing Trees
2019 Booker Prize (shortlist) : 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World


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