Elif Shafak is one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken novelists.
She was born in 1971 and is the author of six novels, including The Forty
Rules of Love, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Gaze, The Saint of Incipient
Insanities and The Flea Palace, and one work of non-fiction. She teaches
at the University of Arizona and divides her time between the US and
Istanbul.