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Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. She has since written four novels in Turkish – Pinhan (‘The Mystic’, 1997), which won the 1998 Great Rumi Prize; Şehrin Aynaları (‘Mirrors of the City’, 1999); Mahrem (‘The Gaze’, 2000), which won the Union of Turkish Writers’ prize for best novel; and her first best-seller, Bit Palas (‘The Flea Palace’, 2002) – and three in English: The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2004), The Bastard of Istanbul (2007) and The Forty Rules of Love (2010), now Turkey’s biggest-selling novel ever.
She is also the author of Med-Cezir (2005), a collection of essays on gender, sexuality, ‘mental ghettos’ and literature, and the memoir Black Milk (2011).
Rather than that, I’d like to be… maybe a kindred spirit? "Elif Shafak". Retrieved 30 June 2021.
You have said that stories lose their magic when they are seen as more than stories.
The Sydney Morning Herald. the Guardian. Winners. "Royal Society of Literature names Elif Shafak as new president". How did that happen to you?
Depressions can be golden opportunities to reassemble your self. That amazes me. I don’t feel anything.
What are the values that as a mother you most want to pass on to your children?
I think the best thing I can do is to give them freedom, self-confidence and love.
Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. And I’m learning a new thing every single day. You open that, only to see a new doll nesting.’ I wonder how you would describe London…
To me, maybe because I’m a latecomer, in some ways London is like a jigsaw puzzle. The Guardian. The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
St Anne's College, Oxford. What comes after death? Retrieved 20 November 2021.
The title ‘The Forty Rules of Love’ suggests that Sufism offers a kind of discipline that leads to a better way of living.
Am I capable of seeing the beauties they might give me through their difference?