Elif Shafak: there’s a scream building up in young people | Elif Shafak
The author Elif Shafak has said she thinks “there’s a scream building up” inside many young people, because they feel their future “is being shaped by older generations”.“It’s difficult to be young, in this age in particular,” the Turkish-British novelist told the Hay festival. “It’s their future that’s been broken by previous generations,” she said, citing Brexit and the climate emergency.She also spoke of the “widening inequalities” that the pandemic has exacerbated and said that it was women, minorities and young…