![]() In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better. ![]() Shafak contributes to many major publications around the world and she has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her. She is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. ![]() Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. ![]()
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