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Live On Stage
Tuesday October 27 2026, 7:30pm BST

Elif Shafak: In One Brief Moment All Eternity

Elif Shafak is the bestselling author of books including The Island of Missing Trees and There Are Rivers in the Sky. She is renowned for her ambitious storytelling and exploration of identity, feminism, migration, spirituality, and the tensions between East and West.

On October 27, Shafak joins us live on stage at Theatre Royal Brighton to discuss the themes of her new novel and the power of literature in a broken world.

Drawing on her brand new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity, Shafak will seek to answer a question that has been a throughline in all of her work to date. What does literature mean in a time of chaos and crisis? When the world feels fragmented, polarised, and in the face of war, violence and great suffering, what can writers offer society?

Join Elif live in Brighton, have your book signed, and ask your questions in the audience Q&A.

In One Brief Moment All Eternity
by Elif Shafak

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Event Name

Elif Shafak: In One Brief Moment All Eternity

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Speaker

  • Elif Shafak

    Award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller

Location
  • Theatre Royal Brighton
  • New Rd
  • Brighton and Hove
  • Brighton
  • BN1 1SD
Time
  • Tuesday 27 October 2026
  • 7:30pm to 9pm BST

Speakers

Speaker

Elif Shafak

Award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller

Award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into 58 languages. She is the author of 21 books, 13 of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Her last novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and has been chosen among BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women. She holds the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2024 was awarded the British Academy President’s Medal for “her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range.” Her latest book is There are Rivers in the Sky.

Speakers are subject to change.