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About Elif Batuman
American author, academic, and journalist
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She writes fiction and nonfiction, and is known for The Possessed, The Idiot, and Either/Or. Her work spans memoir, the novel, and magazine journalism. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and her books include The Possessed (2010), The Idiot (2017), a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022).
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- “There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting wh…”Elif Batuman
- “I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the st…”Elif Batuman
- “Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.”Elif Batuman
- “From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still…”Elif Batuman
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- “I was not out to paint beautiful pictures”even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
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Books by Elif Batuman
The Idiot
2017
The Possessed
2010