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  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 20213 min
    Elif Shafak: ‘We are acting as if we have no memory’

    Ten years on from the Arab Spring – the writers’ view

  • Friday, 22 May, 2020
    Meet our cast of world-changing women
    Elif Shafak on the pleasures of too many books

    Take a look around the novelist’s London home

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Books
    ‘Family Gathering’ by Elif Shafak

    An exclusive short story written for the FT

  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2019
    Roula Khalaf
    Fiction fights a battle for freedom of thought in Turkey

    Novelist Elif Shafak is the latest writer to fall foul of an authoritarian regime

  • Friday, 24 May, 2019
    ReviewFiction
    10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

    The last ten minutes of a murdered prostitute’s life are evoked in a sensual novel that gives voice to the invisible

  • Friday, 29 June, 2018
    FT SeriesSummer books 2018
    Summer books of 2018: critics’ picks

    FT writers and guests select their must-read titles

  • Saturday, 16 December, 2017
    Gender politics
    ‘Cat Person’ and the power of fiction

    A short story, now viral, unsettles readers with its window on to modern relationships

  • Thursday, 7 December, 2017
    Feminism
    Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘We are ready for change. But men are not’

    The award-winning author on how women’s rights went backwards in Turkey

  • Friday, 11 August, 2017
    Q&AThe Inventory
    Q&A with novelist Elif Shafak

    ‘I like a bit of confusion: the dance of faith and doubt’

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 3 February, 2017
    ReviewFiction
    Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak — among the faithful

    Competing visions of Islam clash in a desperately topical novel of ideas

  • Sunday, 8 January, 2017
    Turkish politics
    Turkey sees international relations as board game

    The prevailing view among isolationists is that the country’s EU adventure is over

  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2016
    Special Report
    Comment: Never before have we been so scared of words

    Elif Shafak says it is not Turkey’s writers but the country itself that has deviated from the course of liberal democracy

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2016
    Books
    Emerging Voices 2016 winners announced

    Eka Kurniawan, Gareth Nyandoro and Clarissa Campolina take the prizes for fiction, art and film

  • Friday, 26 August, 2016
    ReviewFiction
    The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin review — a thinker who dared to dream

    Known as a philosopher and critic, Walter Benjamin also created a body of fiction that offers a glimpse of his fevered imagination

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2016
    Turkish politics
    Anger and paranoia in Turkey

    The putschists counted on support from AKP opponents — they were mistaken, says Elif Shafak

  • Friday, 17 June, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘Aleppo’, by Philip Mansel

    A vibrant portrait of Aleppo, an ancient city now living through its darkest days

  • Monday, 14 March, 2016
    Syrian crisis
    Turks are strangers in their own land

    The government’s instinct is to fan the flames of antagonism, writes Elif Shafak

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2015
    Special Report
    Chair of judges: ‘These awards fulfilled all hopes’

    An introduction to the Emerging Voices programme and how the winners were chosen

  • Friday, 7 November, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’, by Elif Shafak

    An exuberant tale of a young boy’s twisting fortunes in 16th-century Istanbul conveys deeper truths about human experience

  • Friday, 24 August, 2012
    Arts
    The Diary: Lorien Kite

    A writers’ conference in Edinburgh tackles the political role of literature

  • Friday, 23 March, 2012
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The expendable sex

    A young Kurdish woman escapes her village for a new life in the west but becomes the victim of an honour killing

  • Friday, 18 February, 2011
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Small talk: Elif Shafak
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2008
    World
    Seven novice writers on Orange longlist
  • Friday, 23 February, 2007
    Life & Arts
    International Pen
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2006
    World
    Controversial Turkish novelist wins Nobel
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