Shafak has been longlisted for the Orange Prize, MAN Asian Prize the Baileys Prize and the IMPACĭublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize. Known as a women’s rights, minority rights and LGBT rights advocate. Relations, a master’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies and a PhD in Political Science. Shafak has taught at various universities in Turkey, UK and USA. Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica. She has been featured in major newspapers and periodicals around the world, including the Financial She has beenĪwarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2010 by the French government. In Davos and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). Shafak is a TED Global speaker, a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy The Forty Rules of Love and most recently Three Daughters of Eve.

She writes in both Turkish and English,Īnd has published 15 books, 10 of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul, She is alsoĪ political commentator and an inspirational public speaker. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.Įlif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Influential people in the world by Time in 2007. Internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the It was followed by Black Swan Green and The ThousandĪutumns of Jacob de Zoet, both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for the Manīooker Prize in 2004, won the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and was adaptedįor film in 2012. David Mitchell’s second novel, number9dream, was shortlistedįor the Booker Prize and in 2003 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Youngīritish Novelists.

It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First BookĪward. Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in

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