Although the incident in many ways is no surprise, the birth of the main character in Elif Shafak’s latest novel (short-listed for this year’s Booker Award) provides a telling context for Turkey’s ...

Elif Ogan, 48, beloved daughter of Pekin and Christine Ogan; sister of Banu Ogan of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and partner of Anthony Hernandez, Portland, Oregon, left our world on July 2 in Portland. We ...

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 ...

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

Not if your name, Elif, your family — and your coffee — is from Turkey. "It's about building relationships. It's about getting to know people," Elif Ekin said. As the coffee origin story goes, an ...

Before gorgeous Elif was a ref, she played for a famous European football club ELIF Karaarslan is the stunning referee accused of being at the centre of a sex tape scandal that shocked Turkish ...

It's the year 1995 and email is a relatively new phenomenon. Selin, the protagonist of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot, has just started her first year at Harvard. She is the daughter of Turkish ...

James Crawford speaks to Elif Shafak about her new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky, and explores its connections to three other literary works. Show more Take Four Books, presented by James ...