Elif Batuman

2026-06-08

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Elif Batuman (born 1977) 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.