Elif Shafak profile

       In The Telegraph, 'Head of Books' Gaby Wood has a profile of sometimes Turkish-, sometimes English-writing Elif Shafak.
       Among the wild stories:

"It's funny," she goes on, "because this past week, I was reading in the Turkish papers, four trucks full of pirated copies of two of my novels have been confiscated by the police. Four trucks -- 150,000 copies ! That's why we never know the real numbers."

       Amazing that book piracy could be such a big business.