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Elif Shafak

June 2024

  • Summer reading 2024

    Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

    Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer

March 2024

  • David Nicholls, Elif Shafak and Gary Lineker.

    Gary Lineker, Theresa May and David Nicholls join the Hay festival 2024 lineup

    This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generation

January 2024

  • The library in the doll’s house, a 1:12 scale replica on an Edwardian residence, that was given as a gift from the nation to Queen Mary after the first world war.

    Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum

    Tom Parker Bowles among 21 writers providing snapshot of contemporary literature in initiative supported by the queen

March 2023

  • ‘Where great minds don’t always think alike’ … Tracey Emin, Stormzy, Richard Osman.

    Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup

    The UK’s best-known literary festival has a new CEO and promises ‘11 days of different’ as it unveils its full lineup featuring Richard Osman, Dua Lipa, Margaret Atwood and more

October 2022

  • Illustration of someone on a boat throwing a lifebuoy ring to a person in the sea, with the shadow of the ring in the shape of an open book

    ‘It provoked an erotic shock in me’ – Marian Keyes, Nick Hornby, Leïla Slimani and other writers on the books that changed them

    From Benjamin Zephaniah on Ain’t I a Woman to Elif Shafak on Orlando by Virginia Woolf – authors tell the story of the moment a book saved their life

September 2022

  • Ancient and modern … these stories capture the shifts in Turkish society.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about Turkey

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah and Margaret Atwood.

    Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival

June 2022

  • ‘Making the future present for us now’ … David Mitchell prepares to lodge, Oslo.

    Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo

  • Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak: there’s a scream building up in young people

April 2022

  • Elif Shafak, Maggie Shipstead, Meg Mason.

    Six ‘wonderfully diverse’ novels make the Women’s prize shortlist

  • Clockwise from top left: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nicola Sturgeon, Bernardine Evaristo, Joe Wicks, Corinne Bailey Rae and Damon Galgut.

    Hay festival returns with its first in-person event for three years

March 2022

  • Women's prize for fiction longlist 2022.

    Five debut novels make Women’s prize for fiction longlist

    Judges praise the ‘fantastically diverse list’ which includes debut novelists Violet Kupersmith and Dawnie Walton

November 2021

  • Elif Shafak

    The books of my life
    Elif Shafak: ‘Reading Orlando was like plunging into a cold but beautifully blue sea’

    The novelist on her love of Virginia Woolf, being inspired by HG Wells and how Jack Kerouac’s ego puts her off his books

September 2021

  • HG Wells, British author, 1903. Artist: Frederick Hollyer. Image shot 1903. Exact date unknown.<br>DDT16E HG Wells, British author, 1903. Artist: Frederick Hollyer. Image shot 1903. Exact date unknown.

    Elif Shafak: How the 21st century would have disappointed HG Wells

    Delivering this year’s HG Wells lecture, the author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World celebrates the late science fiction author’s dedication to fighting inequality

August 2021

  • Writer Elif Shafak

    Book of the day
    The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak review – superlative storytelling

    A tale of love and division moves between postcolonial Cyprus and London, exploring themes of generational trauma and belonging

July 2021

  • Bestselling author of Diary of a Drag Queen, Tom Rasmussen, photographed for the Observer Magazine.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • Elif Shafak in London.

    Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘I’ve always believed in inherited pain’

August 2020

  • TOPSHOTS A Bahraini girl holds a national flag during an anti-government rally in solidarity with jailed human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab on March 22, 2013 in the village of Belad Al Qadeem, in a suburb of Manama. The International Federation for Human Rights says around 80 people have been killed in Bahrain since violence first broke out on February 14, 2011 when thousands of protesters camped out in Manama’s Pearl Square, taking their cue from the Arab Spring uprisings. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKHMOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images

    Book of the day
    How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak review – a poignant look back at another age

    What has happened to the belief that social media can create a new and better world?

April 2020

  • Illustration by Lehel Kovács

    Lockdown culture
    Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape

    From Hilary Mantel to Kazuo Ishiguro and Marlon James to Sebastian Barry, writers share their favourite literary comforts

January 2020

  • Matt Haig at home in Brighton

    'I'm on the hunt for humour and hope': what will authors be reading in 2020?

    Writers including Matt Haig, Gina Miller and Cressida Cowell give their new year’s reading resolutions
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