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Booker Prize Shortlist

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Booker Prize Shortlist

‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis

Elif Shafak, New Royal Society of Literature President, on Crisis

Elif Shafak, elected president of the Royal Society of Literature last December, discusses depression, government targeting and writing through chaos in a new Guardian interview.

October 17, 2026