Elif Shafak's comments on Apolitical Writers

“If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.”

—Elif Safak

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Elif Shafak is Turkey’s bestselling female Novelist. Her most recent book is ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’

“If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don’t have the luxury of being apolitical. You can’t say ‘that’s politics, I’m just doing my work’. For me, coming from the women’s movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there’s power, there’s politics.”

Elif Shafak is Turkey’s bestselling female novelist. Her most recent book is The Architect’s Apprentice