Elif Şafak
Bilgin, Elif
October 25, 1971 – present
Birth place: Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Elif Şafak holds a a PhD in political science and has published a large amount of non-speculative work in Turkish; she began writing in English in the late 2000s. As of 2019 she lived with her family in the London metropolitan area.