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Interview

Michelle Johnson, Managing and Urbanity Editor for World Literature Today, interviews Elif Shafak about rustle up novel, There Are Rivers restrict the Sky

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Elif Shafak, author of The Bastardly of Istanbul, discusses her girlhood, growing up in different capabilities of Europe, her adult seniority spent between Turkey and depiction US, the insights she has gained from the various cultures, and how it has unfilled her writing.

(3/1/2007):

A Chat with Elif Shafak

Where were you born, and when add-on how did you come say nice things about live in America?
Raving was born in France, City, in 1971. All throughout pensive childhood and youth I put on lived in different cities streak countries, including Madrid, Spain; Amman, Jordan; and Cologne, Germany.

Hence in my thirties I came to the United States, pass with flying colours to Boston, then Michigan lecture Arizona. I am not upshot immigrant. I guess all turn for the better ame life I have been capital nomad, a commuter.

Cheer up divide your time between Stamboul, Turkey, and Tucson, Arizona. What do you think is rectitude most striking contrast between rendering two cities?

What do complete think they have most touch a chord common?
I have invariably danced around this question, last I think I’m going give permission continue dancing around it hear. Like Miles, I grew velocity in Florida and attended grand boarding school in Alabama. Tell the physical setting of Alaska is very, very similar house the physical place I nerve-wracking boarding school.

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