At PEN Atlas Elif Shafak tries to answer the question: But why do you write your books in English and Turkish ?
Interesting to learn what her writing-process now involves:
Interesting to learn what her writing-process now involves:
I write my novels in English first. Then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators, whose works I admire and respect. Next I take the Turkish translations and rewrite them, giving them my rhythm, my energy, my vocabulary, which is full of old Ottoman words.