On 20th January, BBC Culture published an article on the most anticipated 45 books of 2024, where Elif Shafak entered the list in a high-ranked place along with Marquez and Stephen King, while on Jan 23, Elif Shafak was listed as the Silver Award winner of this year’s Nielsen Bestseller Awards. Meanwhile, in Türkiye, the events on Shafak’s behalf were different. On Jan 24, writer and journalist Mine G Kırıkkanat shared the lawsuit filed by her against Shafak for the allegation of plagiarism from her Kırıkkanat’s novel “Sinek Sarayı” (1990) in Shafak’s novel “Flea Palace”  (Bit Palas) (2002) has been … Continue reading What Has Really Happened in Elif Shafak’s Plagiarism Case?