Elif Shafak — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Elif Shafak (born 25 October 1971 in Strasbourg), Turkish-British novelist and political scientist, author of The Forty Rules of Love, The Bastard of Istanbul and There Are Rivers in the Sky; it records her upbringing, her academic posts, her prosecution and acquittal in Turkey, and Sufism as a theme of her fiction, without attesting a religious affiliation for Shafak herself.

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