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‘So foul a sky clears not without a storm.’

It is a lovely painting, one that seizes your imagination.

Jun 28 • Elif Shafak

You Don't Have To Go Far To Find Your Muse

At a literature festival recently, during the book signing after my talk, a shy young woman waiting in the queue said to me:

Jun 21 • Elif Shafak

For Those Who, Being Poor, Have Only Their Dreams

Happy birthday William Butler Yeats — born on 13th of June 1865.

Jun 14 • Elif Shafak

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"This stupid bitch" was a fascinating writer

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When Do We Give Up on Writing?

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'A Sort of Strangeness Among People'

Jan 19, 2025 • Elif Shafak

Why Can't You Write About Flowers, Trees and Stars?

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"My Culture Comes From Everywhere"

This week in 1940 a remarkable book was published in America.

Jun 7 • Elif Shafak

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”

There is a strange myth about one of the oldest collection of folk tales known in world literature: The Thousand and One Nights.

May 31 • Elif Shafak

How Does a Writer Find Stories?

“Where do you get your ideas from, I have now read three of your novels and I am so intrigued.

May 24 • Elif Shafak

‘Oh Lord, What a Century You Brought Me Into!’

Once upon a time, as far back as 69 CE, there lived a holy man in the beautiful city of Izmir, Smyrna on the Aegean Coast.

May 17 • Elif Shafak

'Admire As Much As You Can. Most People Don’t Admire Enough'

In 1889 the French painter Virginie Demont-Breton, who played a significant role in the inclusion and visibility of women in the art world, exhibited a…

May 10 • Elif Shafak

In One Brief Moment All Eternity

Dear Friends, Literature Lovers,

May 6 • Elif Shafak

I Dream in My Dream All the Dreams of the Other Dreamers

There is a special place, a quiet shrine, inside the mess that is my heart for the American poet and philosopher Walt Whitman — born in Huntington, Long…

May 3 • Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

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