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RSS FeedsElif Shafak on Turkey`s treatment of novelists - books podcast
(The Guardian Turkey)

 
 

28 august 2019 12:11:52

 
Elif Shafak on Turkey`s treatment of novelists - books podcast
(The Guardian Turkey)
 


On this week´s show, Claire talks to Turkish author Elif Shafak about 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, her new, Booker prize-longlisted novel, which tells the story of a murdered sex worker in Istanbul in the immediate aftermath of her death.Three months ago, Shafak was placed under investigation by Turkish prosecutors, along with a number of other writers, facing allegations that her work condoned child abuse and sexual violence. It isn´t the first time she has fallen foul of the censors: in 2006, she was tried and acquitted for `insulting Turkishness` after prosecutors noticed a character in her novel The Bastard of Istanbul referred to the massacre of Armenians in the first world war as genocide. Continue reading...


 
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