Elif Shafak’s Turkish Sex Worker Story ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ Set for Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak‘s Booker Prize-nominated novel “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World,” which is set in the world of Istanbul sex workers, will be adapted into a feature film by Madrid-based ISB Films and Turkey’s Limon Film.
Shafak, who is Turkey’s most widely read female author, is known for her vast body of work spanning a dozen novels that have been translated into 50 languages.
They often delve into themes of human rights, freedom of expression and identity. “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World” is the first of her novels to be adapted into a feature film.
More than a decade ago, she moved from Turkey to the U.K. after her book “The Bastard of Istanbul” – which touches on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire – led her to be tried for “insulting Turkishness,” for which she was eventually acquitted.
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