# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elif-safak
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:45.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elif-safak"
name: "Elif Şafak"
slug: "elif-safak"
description: "Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist, and activist."
tagline: "Turkish writer (born 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ElifShafak_Ask_EbruBilun_Wiki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.69
  momentum:             3.195246878799561
  historical:           25.095928
  currentAttention:     9.607142857142856
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  227
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Elif_Safak"
    handle:    "Elif_Safak"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/shafakelif/"
    handle:    "shafakelif"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9242641/"
    handle:    "nm9242641"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://elifsafak.com.tr"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ألف شفق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الف شفق"
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    title: "الیف شافاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Елиф Шафак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Shafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Shafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Shafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Şafak"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الیف شافاک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Şafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elif_Shafak"
    title: "Elif Shafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elif_Shafak"
    title: "Elif Shafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אליף שאפאק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Šafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elif Shafak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump