‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis

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• Elif Shafak discusses her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government and overcoming depression in a new interview.
• Her latest novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity, is a fictionalised life of Gustave Flaubert, written as a love letter to literature.