Elif Shafak was born in Strasbourg, France in 1971. She graduated from Middle East Technical University in T\u00fcrkiye with a bachelor's degree in international relations. She has a master's degree in gender and women's studies and a doctor's degree in political science. Now she has become the most popular female writer in T\u00fcrkiye, winning numerous awards. Critics once called it the most distinctive voice in contemporary T\u00fcrkiye and the world literary world. Her book has been published in over 40 countries around the world. She also received the honor of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, an award established by the French Ministry of Culture in 1957. Shafak has published 13 books, 9 of which are novels, both in English and T\u00fcrkiye. She combines Eastern and Western narrative traditions, creating works involving women, ethnic minorities, immigrants, subcultures, young people, and more. The themes of her novels include multiculturalism, literary traditions, history, philosophy, Islamic Sufi abstinence mysticism, customs, and cultural governance, which are very extensive. At the same time, Shafak's writing dares to break through, abandons outdated themes and techniques, and is passionate about the use of black humor. Pinhan, the mystic in Shafak's first novel, won the Rumi Prize of T\u00fcrkiye in 1998 for the best mystical literary work; The Mirror of the City in the Second Novel \u015e Ehrin Aynalar \u0131 Combining Jewish mysticism with Islamic mysticism, with a historical background set in the 17th century Mediterranean region; Her novel, Mahrem, with the English translation of the Gaze, was well received by readers after its publication, and won the Best Novel Award of T\u00fcrkiye Writers Union in 2000. Later, The Flea Palace, a novel named Bit Palas, became a best seller in T\u00fcrkiye and was selected as the Best Fiction Award by The Independent. Since the Flea Palace, Shafak has created her first English novel, The Saint of Incipient Insignities, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; The Bastard of Istanbul, the second English novel, became a best seller in T\u00fcrkiye in 2006 and was included in the Orange prize. And Shafak's latest novel, known as Iskender and translated as Honor, has also topped the best-selling list and received praise from readers and critics of all ages and levels. In T\u00fcrkiye, this book even triggered people's concern about family, love, freedom, redemption and masculinity