Biographie d'Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize ; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award ; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year.
In 2019 Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World and in 2021 The Architect's Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's inaugural book club, The Reading Room. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature.