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Throughout history, literature and geography have worked cooperatively in telling man’s story on earth. The ways geography studies places and people vary in terms of scale and topics, both in global and local levels. This is one of the factors that make geography unique among other disciplines. Taking issues around him into consideration first, a geographer is interested in country and world issues and also attempts to come up with solutions for them. An author, likewise, observes his community and people; he is also concerned about happenings in his own country as well as in the world. Novels, in which authors express their feelings and opinions effectively, are pieces of literature where geographical elements are highly included. Some authors, particularly, deals with geographical issues in their novels as both a physical surrounding and a humane issue. As one of such authors, Elif Şafak handles geographical issues frequently and with success. This study aims to perform text analyses of these elements and issues in Elif Şafak’s novels through geography-centered reading method, also known as géo-littéraire, and to demonstrate the effect of geography on literary texts, mainly on novels. In this way, scientific and social importance of literary geography, which unites literature and geography, will be highlighted.

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