Elif Shafak Explained

Elif Shafak
Native Name:Elif Şafak
Birth Name:Elif Bilgin
Birth Date:1971 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Strasbourg, France
Education:Middle East Technical University
Period:1990s–present
Genre:Literary fiction

Elif Shafak (Turkish: Elif Şafak, pronounced as /tr/; née Bilgin; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British[1] novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist[2] and activist.

Shafak writes in Turkish and English, and has published 21 books. She is best known for her novels, which include The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Three Daughters of Eve and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Her works have been translated into 57 languages and have been nominated for several literary awards. She has been described by the Financial Times as "Turkey's leading female novelist",[3] with several of her works having been bestsellers in Turkey and internationally.

Her works have prominently featured the city of Istanbul, and dealt with themes of Eastern and Western culture, roles of women in society, and human rights issues. Certain politically challenging topics addressed in her novels, such as child abuse and the Armenian genocide, have led to legal action from authorities in Turkey[4] that prompted her to emigrate to the United Kingdom.

Shafak has a PhD in political science. An essayist and contributor to several media outlets, Shafak has advocated for women's rights, minority rights, and freedom of speech.[5] [6]

Early life and education

Shafak was born in Strasbourg, France, to Nuri Bilgin, a philosopher, and Şafak Atayman, who later became a diplomat. After her parents separated, Shafak returned to Ankara, Turkey, where she was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother.[7] She says that growing up in a dysfunctional family was difficult, but that growing up in a non-patriarchal environment had a beneficial impact on her. Having grown up without her father, she met her half-brothers for the first time when she was in her mid-twenties.[8]

Shafak added her mother's first name, Turkish for "dawn", to her own when constructing her pen name at the age of eighteen. Shafak spent her teenage years in Madrid, Jordan and Germany.[8]

Shafak studied an undergraduate degree in international relations at Middle East Technical University, and earned a master's degree in women's studies.[9] She holds a Ph.D. in political science.[10] [11] She has taught at universities in Turkey. Later emigrating to the United States, she was a fellow at Mount Holyoke College, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, and was a tenured professor at the University of Arizona in Near Eastern studies.[12]

In the UK, she held the Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, for the 2017–2018 academic year,[13] where she is an honorary fellow.[14]

Career

Shafak has published 21 books, fiction and nonfiction.[15]

Fiction

Shafak's first novel, Pinhan, was awarded the Rumi Prize in 1998, a Turkish literary prize.[16]

Shafak's 1999 novel Mahrem (The Gaze) was awarded "Best Novel" by the Turkish Authors' Association in 2000.[17]

Her next novel, Bit Palas (The Flea Palace, 2002), was shortlisted for Independent Best Foreign Fiction in 2005.[18] [19]

Shafak released her first novel in English, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, in 2004.[8]

Her second novel in English, The Bastard of Istanbul, was long-listed for the Orange Prize.[20] It addresses the Armenian genocide, which is denied by the Turkish government. Shafak was prosecuted in July 2006 on charges of "insulting Turkishness" (Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code) for discussing the genocide in the novel. Had she been convicted, she would have faced a maximum prison sentence of three years. The Guardian commented that The Bastard of Istanbul may be the first Turkish novel to address the genocide.[21] She was acquitted of these charges in September 2006 at the prosecutor's request.[22]

Shafak's novel The Forty Rules of Love (Aşk in Turkish) became a bestseller in Turkey upon its release;[23] it sold more than 200,000 copies by 2009, surpassing a previous record of 120,000 copies set by Orhan Pamuk's The New Life.[24] In France, it was awarded a Prix ALEF* – Mention Spéciale Littérature Etrangère.[25] It was also nominated for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.[26] In 2019, it was listed by the BBC as one of the 100 "most inspiring" novels[27] and one of the "100 novels that shaped our world".[28]

Her 2012 novel Honour, which focuses on an honour killing,[29] was nominated for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction,[30] [31] [32] followed by The Architect's Apprentice, a historical fiction novel about a fictional apprentice to Mimar Sinan, in 2014.

Her novel Three Daughters of Eve (2017), set in Istanbul and Oxford from the 1980s to the present day,[33] was chosen by London Mayor Sadiq Khan as his favourite book of the year.[34] American writer Siri Hustvedt also praised the book.[35] The book explores themes of secular versus orthodox religious practice, conservative versus liberal politics and modern Turkish attitudes towards these .[36]

Following Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Sjon, Shafak was selected as the 2017 writer for the Future Library project. Her work The Last Taboo is the third part of a collection of 100 literary works that will not be published until 2114.[37]

Shafak's 2019 novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, revolving around the life of an Istanbul sex worker, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[38] In 2019, Shafak was investigated by Turkish prosecutors for addressing child abuse and sexual violence in her fiction writing.[39]

Shafak released her twelfth novel The Island of Missing Trees in 2021.[40]

Her latest novel is There are Rivers in the Sky, a split-timeline novel about water, that reaches from the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal to a hydrologist in present day London.[41]

Non-fiction

Shafak's non-fiction essays in Turkish have been collected in four books: Med-Cezir (2005),[42] Firarperest (2010),[43] Şemspare (2012)[44] and Sanma ki Yalnızsın (2017).[45]

In 2020, Shafak published How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division.[2]

In the media

Shafak has written for Time, The Guardian,[46] La Repubblica,[47] The New Yorker,[48] The New York Times,[49] Der Spiegel[50] and New Statesman.[51]

Shafak has been a panellist or commentator on BBC World,[52] Euronews[53] and Al Jazeera English.[54]

Until 2009 when she transferred to Habertürk, Shafak was a writer for the newspaper Zaman, which was known for its affiliation with Fethullah Gülen.

In July 2017, Elif Shafak was chosen as a "castaway" on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[55]

Shafak has been a TEDGlobal speaker three times.[56]

Plagiarism

In January 2024, Shafak found guilty of plagiarism in her book Bit Palas. She plagiarised characters and plot of Mine Kırıkkanat's book, Sinek Sarayı.[57] Shafak has appealed the decision of the court.[58]

Themes

Istanbul

Istanbul has been prominent in Shafak's writing. She depicts the city as a melting pot of different cultures and various contradictions.[59] Shafak has remarked: "Istanbul makes one comprehend, perhaps not intellectually but intuitively, that East and West are ultimately imaginary concepts, and can thereby be de-imagined and re-imagined."[60] In the same essay written for Time magazine Shafak says: "East and West is no water and oil. They do mix. And in a city like Istanbul they mix intensely, incessantly, amazingly." The New York Times Book Review said of Shafak, "she has a particular genius for depicting backstreet Istanbul, where the myriad cultures of the Ottoman Empire are still in tangled evidence on every family tree."[4]

In a piece she wrote for the BBC, Shafak said, "Istanbul is like a huge, colourful Matrushka – you open it and find another doll inside. You open that, only to see a new doll nesting. It is a hall of mirrors where nothing is quite what it seems. One should be cautious when using categories to talk about Istanbul. If there is one thing the city doesn't like, it is clichés."[61]

Eastern and Western cultures

Shafak blends Eastern and Western ways of storytelling, and draws on oral and written culture. In The Washington Post, Ron Charles Wrote: "Shafak speaks in a multivalent voice that captures the roiling tides of diverse cultures."[62] Mysticism and specifically Sufism has also been a theme in her work, particularly in The Forty Rules of Love.[63]

Feminism

A feminist and advocate for gender equality, Shafak's writing has addressed numerous feminist issues and the role of women in society.[64] Examples include motherhood and violence against women. In an interview with William Skidelsky for The Guardian, she said: "In Turkey, men write and women read. I want to see this change."[65]

Human rights

Shafak's novels have explored human rights issues, particularly those in Turkey. She has said: "What literature tries to do is to re-humanize people who have been dehumanized ... People whose voices we never hear. That's a big part of my work".[66] Specific topics have included persecution of Yazidis, the Armenian genocide and the treatment of various minorities in Turkey.

Views

Freedom of speech

Shafak is an advocate for freedom of expression.[67] While taking part in the Free Speech Debate, she commented: "I am more interested in showing the things we have in common as fellow human beings, sharing the same planet and ultimately, the same sorrows and joys rather than adding yet another brick in the imaginary walls erected between cultures/religions/ethnicities."[68]

Political views

Shafak has been critical of the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, describing his tenure as leading to increased authoritarianism in Turkey.[69] She signed an open letter in protest against Turkey's Twitter ban in 2014, commenting: "the very core of democracy ... is lacking in today's Turkey".[70]

Shafak has spoken and written about various global political trends. In the 2010s, she drew parallels between Turkish political history and political developments in Europe and the United States. Writing in The New Yorker in 2016, she said "Wave after wave of nationalism, isolationism, and tribalism have hit the shores of countries across Europe, and they have reached the United States. Jingoism and xenophobia are on the rise. It is an Age of Angst—and it is a short step from angst to anger and from anger to aggression."

Shafak signed an open letter in protest against Russian persecution of homosexuals and blasphemy laws before Sochi 2014.[71]

Personal life

Shafak had lived in Istanbul, and in the United States before moving to the UK.[72] Shafak has lived in London since 2013,[73] but speaks of "carrying Istanbul in her soul".[74] As of 2019, Shafak had been in self-imposed exile from Turkey due to fear of prosecution.[75]

Shafak is married to the Turkish journalist Eyüp Can Sağlık, a former editor of the liberal newspaper Radikal, with whom she has a daughter and a son.[76] In 2017, Shafak came out as bisexual.[77]

Following the birth of her daughter in 2006, Shafak suffered from postnatal depression, a period she addressed in her memoir Black Milk.[78]

Awards and recognition

Book awards

Other recognition

Bibliography

Turkish English
Name Year Publisher ISBN Name Year Publisher ISBN
Kem Gözlere Anadolu 1994 Evrensel
Pinhan 1997 Metis
Şehrin Aynaları 1999 Metis
Mahrem 2000 Metis The Gaze 2006 Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Bit Palas 2002 Metis The Flea Palace 2007 Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Araf 2004 Metis The Saint of Incipient Insanities 2004 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Beşpeşe (with Murathan Mungan, Faruk Ulay, Celil Oker and Pınar Kür) 2004 Metis
Med-Cezir 2005 Metis
Baba ve Piç 2006 Metis The Bastard of Istanbul 2007 Viking
Siyah Süt 2007 Doğan Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within 2011 Viking
Aşk 2009 Doğan The Forty Rules of Love

A Novel of Rumi

2010 Viking
Kâğıt Helva 2010 Doğan
Firarperest 2010 Doğan
The Happiness of Blond People: A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity 2011 Penguin
İskender 2011 Doğan Honour 2012 Viking
Şemspare 2012 Doğan
Ustam ve Ben 2013 Doğan The Architect's Apprentice 2014 Viking
Sakız Sardunya 2014 Doğan
Havva'nın Üç Kızı 2016 Doğan Three Daughters of Eve 2016 Viking
Sanma ki Yalnızsın 2018 Doğan
On Dakika Otuz Sekiz Saniye 2018 Doğan 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World 2019 Viking
Aşkın Kırk Kuralı (compilation based on Aşk) 2019 Doğan Novus
Bölünmüş Bir Dünyada Akıl Sağlığımızı Nasıl Koruruz 2022 Doğan How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division 2020
Kayıp Ağaçlar Adası 2023 Doğan The Island of Missing Trees 2021 Viking

Notes and References

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