Elif Shafak (born October 25, 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, academic, public speaker and women's rights activist.
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Elif Shafak
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Elif Bilgin Shafaq
Portrait from Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Publicity shot by Ebru Bilun, released by Michael Radulescu of Rusoff Agency, the literary agency for the subject. Used under CC BY-SA. Processed and styled by Quotewise.
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