I am so excited to share this news with you: In One Brief Moment All Eternity. I realise now this was the novel that I always wanted to write but never before could dare to write. It is my love letter to literature. I hope, I sincerely hope, this story will resonate with you and find a corner in your heart the way it has lived inside mine #inonebriefmomentalleternity 📚📚📚
So many people, right now, across the world, are deeply anxious -- an existential angst that affects us, and at times, can be debilitating. But the question is not whether we are worried or angry or depressed or frustrated, the question is what do we do with these emotions? Can we take our anxiety and turn it into art? Into music? Into literature? Can we take our anger and turn it into climate activism? Can we take our depression and turn it into community work? How can we transform all these heavy and difficult emotions into something much more positive for ourselves, for our communities, for our societies and for humanity? Thank you @lsepublicevents for sharing this @londonschoolofeconomics@atlanticfellows_at_lse@lse.library #literaturelove 📚📚📚 London School of Economics konuşmamdan bir bölüm paylaşmış, çok teşekkür ederim. Endişe, öfke, karamsarlık çağında yaşıyoruz, çok normal böyle hissetmemiz, yazar Tony Morrison'un çok sevdiğim bir yazısı var: diyor ki "bazen çok öfkeleniyorum, sonra gidip masama oturup yazıyorum" Çok önemli bir bakış açısı bu: öfkemizi endişemizi yorgunluğumuzu, kırgınlıklarımızı alıp sanata edebiyata aktivizme dönüştürebilir miyiz? Hem kendimiz hem toplumlarımız için daha pozitif bir enerjiye çevirebilir miyiz?
We are living in the Age of 3As: Anger, Anxiety and AI. This, in itself is already difficult enough, but if this were to become the Age of 4 As, that is if Apathy were added into this equation it would be a much darker, more divided and difficult world to live in. Literature connects, inspires and gently heals us. Reading fiction is an profoundly humbling exercise for the Ego, for the mind, for the soul. My heartfelt thanks for this interview @thequeensreadingroom 📚📚📚
Why do we read? It is a question we never ask ourselves because reading needs no justification, no explanation and no function. For the same reason we never ask ourselves why we breathe. So every now and then I'd love to share with you what l am reading. These are some of the brilliant books that are on my desk right now #literaturelovers #readingnow 📚📚📚 Aşk gibiydi okumak da, neden ve nasıl müptelası olduğunu bilen zaten gayet iyi bilirdi, bilmeyene anlatmanın ise imkanı yoktu . Bu hafta masamdaki kitaplar, sevgiyle ilgiyle okuyorum
At the British Book Awards, lovingly called #nibbies I was so honoured to be shortlisted for Author of the Year. My deepest congratulations to all finalists and winners throughout the night. This interview was with the amazing @hannahmacin1 for the Nibbies podcast, what a joy to talk about literature, the full interview will be posted by the @thebritishbookawards #literaryfiction 📚📚📚
Today is Mother's Day in many parts of the world and I wanted to take a moment to think about some beloved writers and their mothers. Please forgive me for adding my own personal background into this carousel but to me it felt natural to do so as I sincerely believe that since time immemorial mothers have been the storytellers, the memory keepers of their communities, their cultures. We have heard our first stories from them... and sometimes from our grandmothers. #happymothersday 📚📚📚
It is a time of seismic social, political and cultural changes and all of these can feel deeply worrying, confusing and even exhausting. I know that writers cannot stop wars or violence or hatred, but literature can gently and passionately keep alive the tender flame of peace, empathy, coexistence and humanity. Art and literature have never been as essential, as existential, as needed as they are in today's fractured world. 📚📚📚
Can faith and doubt ever hold hands? We are so used to thinking and speaking in binaries, clashing certainties, rigid dualities, always forced to choose either/or. But there were other ways of thinking that we have lost touch with: the poetry and philosophy of Oneness. Is that still possible? My heartfelt thanks for this inspiring conversation to @berggrueninst and the @futurologypod 📚📚📚
I was so touched to see this heartwarming post from Australia, from a young couple who brought my book The Forty Rules of Love to their wedding ceremony, as this was the novel that they both loved and bonded over, the story they held close to their hearts as they found each other. Thank you so much for sharing this with me, very grateful, wishing you happiness dear Fatma and Ahmet @studiosanat_ #literaturelovers #thefortyrulesoflove 📚📚📚 çok yüreğime dokundu bu paylaşım, genç bir çift nikah törenlerinde, Aşk romanımla
Do we describe our emotions in different ways as we switch from one language to another? Are certain emotions, such as anger or frustration, somehow much easier to express in a native than foreign language? Or are there times when we feel lighter when we speak a non-native language, despite the struggle, despite the difficulty. Does it give us a sense of freedom perhaps, even when we are not perfect (and who in this world is perfect?) Studies show that people find it easier to swear or to say "I love you" or to pray in their mother tongues, why is it like that? I am always amazed by these linguistic and cultural questions. Language changes the way we think, we feel, we write.... 📚📚📚
#elifshafak #author #language #turkish #italian #bilingual #english #literature #books #immigrant #writing #swearing
What would you rescue from the rubble? Would you rescue books? Knowledge? Literature? Stories of ancestors? This is such a devastating, heartbreaking question, and two young Palestinian librarians have rescued -- they have rebuilt-- a whole library from the ruins and the rubble. Amidst the heaviness of international and domestic news, the Phoenix Library in Gaza did not get enough coverage or attention, but I think this is remarkable. Thank you @clarissawardcnn for this important story and thank you Hannah for sharing with me. 📚📚📚
This was a magical event at Cambridge The Arts Theatre, there were people who had travelled from Germany just for this event, two friends had travelled from Italy, some others from Wales, Ireland.... It was incredibly moving to see so many people from different generations and very different backgrounds. My heart is full of gratitude, a huge thank you to the wise and unique @georginacgodwin the brilliant Cambridge Festival Team and our generous, kind audience, you were amazing @camlitfest #cambridgeevents #literaryfiction #thereareriversinthesky 📚📚📚 Dün Cambridge'de çok büyük bir salonda gerçekleşti etkinliğimiz. Almanya'dan İtalya'dan gelenler vardı, seyircilerin içinde her yaştan, her kesimden insan vardı, tüm kalbimle teşekkür ederim
