Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 55 languages. Her most recent novel, 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; and chosen as Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her previous novel, THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE, was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World.

Shafak has been conferred Doctor of Humane Letters by Bard College in 2021. Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker; she contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Books by Elif Shafak

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak - Fiction, Women's Fiction

From the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD comes a rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal.

The Bastard of Istanbul

by Elif Shafak - Fiction

The Bastard of Istanbul is the story of two families, one Turkish and one Armenian American, and their struggle to forge their unique identities against the backdrop of Turkey's violent history. This exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the tension between the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it.