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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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- “Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yoursel…”Israelmore Ayivor
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Passion: more sayings
- “I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three o…”Valentino Rossi
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Books by Elif Batuman
The Idiot
2017
The Possessed
2010