Elif Şafak is perhaps Turkey’s most famous writer. Her most famous novel, The Forty Rules of Love (Penguin Random House, 2009) on Sufi poet Jalal-ad-Din Rumi and his spiritual teacher Shams Tabrizi catapulted her into literary stardom and was translated into more than twenty languages. All in all, Şafak has published 11 novels in Turkish […]
