Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses ...

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today. Show more Kirsty Young's castaway ...

Turkish writer Elif Shafak describes her homeland as a "fluid, unsteady country," caught in a tug of war between pluralism and ultra-nationalistic paranoia. Shafak is Turkey's most widely-read female ...

In one respect, The Idiot, a debut novel by Elif Batuman, staff writer at the New Yorker, is an expansion of the Hungary-based segment of her nonfiction The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books ...