Elif Åžafak

Elif Şafak ( born October 25, 1971 in Strasbourg, France; outside of Turkey known as Shafak - the same outspoken, English spelling ), born as Elif Bilgin, is a Turkish novelist. It is one of the most widely read writers in Turkey and to the Turkish writers with high recognition abroad.

The pseudonym Şafak ( Turkish " Dawn ") is the first name of her mother. She writes in both Turkish and English.

Life

As the daughter of a diplomat Şafak Atayman and sociology professor Nuri Bilgin, she grew up among others in Madrid and Amman. She studied International Relations at the University of Technology in the Middle East in Ankara, received a Master of Sciences in Gender and Women's Studies with a thesis on The Deconstruction of Femininity Along the Cyclical Understanding of Heterodox Dervishes in Islam and a Ph.D. from the same University in Political Science with An Analysis of Turkish Modernity Through Discourses of Masculinities. From 2006, she worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is currently researching at Kingston University London.

Literary she made her debut with the story published in 1994, Kem Gözlere Anadolu. Her first novel ( Pinhan ) appeared in 1997 and was awarded it in the directory named after the Persian mystic Rumi Mevlana Celaleddin Prize, which is awarded for works in the field of Islamic mysticism. A first breakthrough came with his novel Şehrin Aynaları ( mirror of the city), for which she was awarded the prize of the Turkish Writers' Association in 2000.

The topics of their published in the English language novel The Bastard of Istanbul called violent reactions in their home out and the Turkish judiciary to the plan. However, this precipitated in September 2006, the ruling that the defendant passages in the novel under Article 301 ( 3 ) of the Turkish Penal Code were lawful; because - as it was called in the court's opinion on - " expressions of opinion, which are made ​​with the intention of criticism, does not constitute a crime"

At the protests in Turkey in the summer of 2013 expressed Şafak, Turkish citizens have lost confidence in the government. The Turkish government make the mistake of not taking the fears of citizens seriously.

Şafak is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Private

Elif Şafak is married to Turkish journalist Eyüp Can Sağlık and has with him a daughter (* 2006) and a son (* 2008). Sağlık regarded as partisans of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

Works

  • Kem Gözlere Anadolu, Evrensel 1994, ISBN 975-7837-29-6
  • Pinhan, Metis 1997, ISBN 975-342-297-0
  • Şehrin Aynaları, Metis 1999, ISBN 975-342-298-9
  • Mahrem, Metis 2000, ISBN 975-342-285-7
  • Bit Palas, Metis 2002, ISBN 975-342-354-3
  • Beşpeşe, Metis 2004, ISBN 975-342-467-1 ( with Murathan Mungan, Faruk Ulay, Celil Oker and Pınar Freestyle)
  • Med Cezir, Metis 2005, ISBN 975-342-533-3
  • Siyah Süt, Doğan 2007, ISBN 978-975-991-531-5
  • Aşk, Doğan 2009, ISBN 978-605-111-107-0
  • Kağıt helva, Doğan 2010, ISBN 978-605-111-426-2
  • Firarperest, Doğan 2010, ISBN 978-605-111-902-1 ( illustrated by MK Perker )
  • Iskender, Doğan 2011, ISBN 9786050902518
  • Şemspare, Doğan 2012, ISBN 9786050907995 ( illustrated by MK Perker )

English

  • The Saint of Incipient Insanities, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004, ISBN 0-374-25357-9
  • The Bastard of Istanbul, Viking Adult, 2007 ISBN 978-0-670-03834-3
  • The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi, Viking Adult, 2010 ISBN 978-0-670-02145-1

In German translation

  • Mirror of the city ( translation of Şehrin Aynaları from Turkish ) Literaturca Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-935535-06-6
  • The Saint of Incipient Insanities ( translation of The Saint of Incipient Insanities from English ), Eichborn 2005, ISBN 3-8218-5750-1
  • The Bastard of Istanbul ( translation of The Bastard of Istanbul from English ), Eichborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-5799-2
  • The Sweet Palace ( translation of Bit Palas from Turkish ), Eichborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-5806-7
  • Foreword to: Istanbul by Andreas Herzau, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010 ISBN 978-3-7757-2615-3
  • The forty Secrets of Love (Translation of The Forty Rules of Love, from the English by Michaela grave Inger ), Kein & Aber, 2013, ISBN 978-3036956664
  • Honor ( translation of Honour, from the English by Michaela grave Inger ), Kein & Aber 2014, ISBN 978-3-0369-5676-3
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