A Turkish court ordered novelist Elif Safak and the Türkiye-based Dogan Kitap Publishing House to pay both financial and moral damages in a plagiarism case. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, ...

The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 3 September at a morning press conference. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book The longlist ...

This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcasThe Island of Missing Treest episode: ‘Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘Writers are the memory keepers’’ Lilah Raptopoulos Welcome to Life ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elif Shafak’s new novel brings together four stories set in three different centuries: ancient Mesopotamia, ...