Writers & poets
Elif Şafak
A widely translated novelist writing in both Turkish and English.
The Turkish name
Elif Şafak
Recording on its way.
The story
Elif Şafak writes about identity, women's lives, İstanbul and the meeting of cultures. The Forty Rules of Love, about the poet Rumi and his companion Shams, became one of the best selling Turkish novels ever.
She writes in both Turkish and English and lives in London. Her novels have been translated into more than fifty languages.
At a glance
- Born
- 25 October 1971, Strasbourg
- Major works
- Aşk (The Forty Rules of Love), Baba ve Piç