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Elif Batuman

American
Born 1977
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed (2010), the novel The Idiot (2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022). Batuman is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

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2 books. Dates and covers from Amazon.

  1. The Possessed cover
    2010
    The Possessed
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  2. The Idiot cover
    2017
    The Idiot
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Cover of The Idiot
The Idiot
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Set in the mid-1990s, the novel follows a young woman of Turkish immigrant background through her freshman year at Harvard. During this early period of internet communication, she begins an email correspondence with an older Hungarian mathematics student, a relationship that becomes central to her e

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