Elif Shafak in conversation with Stephanie Merritt — In One Brief Moment All Eternity

Join global bestselling writer and renowned activist Elif Shafak in conversation with author Stephanie Merritt. Elif will discuss her acclaimed novels, including The Island of Missing Trees and There Are Rivers in the Sky, and explore the themes that define her work, from identity, feminism and migration to spirituality and the tensions between East and West. 

" A unique and powerful voice in world literature" — Ian McEwan

"One of the best writers in the world today" — Hanif Kueishi

Elif Shafak is an award-winning and highly acclaimed British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty-one books, including fourteen novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world.

Stephanie Merritt is a novelist, memoirist, literary critic and feature writer. She writes both under her own name and as the bestselling historical crime novelist S. J. Parris. A former Deputy Literary Editor of the Observer, she is now a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Observer. Her debut novel, Gaveston, won a Betty Trask Award, while her memoir The Devil Within was shortlisted for the Mind Book Award. Her latest novel, Traitor's Legacy, is the newest S. J. Parris historical thriller.

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