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CloseElif Șafak was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1971. She is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read woman writer in Turkey. Critics have named her as “one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Turkish and world literature”. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and she was awarded the honorary distinction of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Kamila Shamsie, Colm Tóibín and Jeanette Winterson were among the contributors to this anthology of new writing inspired by Robert Graves’ famous phrase.
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