URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 17 Oct 2026
‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis
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The author talks about her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government and overcoming depression to write her latest novelFor a long time Elif Shafak was referred to as Turkey’s “most widely read female author”. Today, she is surely simply its best loved. Orhan Pamuk may have won the Nobel prize in literature, but it is Shafak whose novels are fervently passed among readers. There…
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