There Are Rivers in the Sky | Elif Shafak in conversation with William Dalrymple

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Celebrated writer Elif Shafak's upcoming book, There are Rivers in the Sky, is an evocative narrative of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. Hear Shafak talk about her latest dazzling feat of storytelling in a sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and water drops:
‘Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist who has published 20 books, including her upcoming novel There Are Rivers in the Sky. She is a bestselling author and her work has been translated into 57 languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she is an honorary fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford University. She is an advocate for women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, freedom of expression and was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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@MyWissam 5 ай бұрын

It is sad that Turkey would not celebrate its Nobel laureate Pamuk, or in general its wonderful authors ... I love reading Pamuk and Shafak ... I hope Shafak wins the Nobel prize sometime soon, for that would be a recognition of "universal literature".

@euchrideucrow1970 5 ай бұрын

“I’m just a storyteller”… that’s gotta be the understatement of the year! What an incredible storyteller Elif Shafak is. I’ve just finished reading this book and it is truly wonderful.