The most widely read woman writer in Turkey today, Elif Shafak was accused of insulting “Turkishness” for mentioning the Armenian genocide in one of her novels. Throughout her life and career, Elif has tried to unify the wildly different aspects of her identity: woman, Muslim, Turkish, international globetrotter, writer, mother. For her, what holds it all together in the end is the power of fiction to overcome the politics of identity.
Guest
Elif Shafak, Award-winning novelist and author of The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, and Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
