Elif Shafak Interview: Art is About Resistance from growing up 1971 Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 19 min 80 sec
✓ Published: 07-Oct-2019

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“You have to talk about what’s happening outside the window,” says the award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak in this video, where she speaks forcefully about the importance of sisterhood and global solidarity, and about the novel as an increasingly needed democratic space. ntnShafak was raised by two women – her mother and grandmother – which she feels gave her an early sense of being different: “Throughout my life, I felt like an insider-outsider, always on the peripher