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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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- “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
- “To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny.”Elif Batuman
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Books by Elif Batuman
The Idiot
2017
The Possessed
2010