Live Podcast recording: Elif Shafak on The Shift with Sam Baker
Elif Shafak – whose most recent novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was shortlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction – joins writer and journalist Sam Baker for a live recording of her podcast The Shift. Expect a discussion about Elif’s impressive list of bestselling novels, as well as politics and societal issues from one of Turkey’s most vocal writers.
This event will be a live recording of The Shift podcast, to be released later in 2022. Audience questions will be welcome. Any questions may later be broadcast on The Shift podcast feed.
About the speakers:
The Shift is a weekly podcast with over 1 million downloads and counting that tells the truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by journalist, author and broadcaster, Sam Baker. Sam set up The Shift to amplify the voices and achievements of older women and to give others the opportunity to hear and benefit from their stories. Guests so far include Nicola Sturgeon, FM of Scotland, Philippa Perry, Barbara Blake Hannah, Anita Rani, Marian Keyes, Lindsey Hilsum, Minnie Driver, Sheila Hancock, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys, Jess Phillips MP and many more.
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 55 languages. The author of 19 books, 12 of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
Sam Baker is a journalist, broadcaster, and author, as well as the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Red. She has written for Femail, Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan, the Guardian, Stylist, Red. She co-founded The Pool. Sam has also judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa novel award and the Nibbies. Sam is married to the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood and lives in Edinburgh.
