The author talks about her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government and overcoming depression to write her latest novel For 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 w...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/17/is-there-any-value-in-writing-a-story-in-a-time-of-chaos-novelist-elif-shafak-on-her-creative-crisis)

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