Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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"The Perfect Writing Space"

"The Perfect Writing Space"

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Victor Hugo’s writing space in exile, this is where he finished Les Miserables (image via Lit Hub)

It was a long time ago, in a different world, I moved to Istanbul on my own, dreaming of becoming something—someone— I had never seen growing up as a kid in a patriarchal neighbourhood in Ankara: a female author.

With me I carried several boxes of books (mo…

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