Interview with Elif Shafak

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Born in Strasbourg and raised nomadically across Europe and the Middle East, the talk connects personal history to concrete practices: 13 books, nine novels and a working method that writes each novel in English first and then rewrites the Turkish translation, effectively producing each book twice. It names specific social problems in Turkey—honor killings, child brides, near-absence of women in politics—argues for a politics-as-second-order influence on fiction, and insists on restoring lost Ottoman vocabulary to expand thought and expression.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:40Childhood
3. 1:57Status of Women
4. 3:49Languages

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