Elif Shafak Biography

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English and has published seventeen books eleven of which are novels including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul The Forty Rules of Love and Three Daughters of Eve. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. She is published by Penguin/Random House and represented by Curtis Brown globally. She was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better.
Shafak is also a political scientist and an academic. She holds a degree in International Relations a masters’ degree in Gender and Women’s Studies and a PhD in Political Science and Political Philosophy. She has taught at various universities in Turkey the UK and the USA including St Anne's College Oxford University where she is an honorary fellow.
Shafak is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights LGBT rights and freedom of speech Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker each time receiving a standing ovation.

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