Varde Hirenkumar Balavatbhai et al. International Journal of Recent Research Aspects ISSN: 2349-7688, Vol. 7, Issue 4, Dec 2020, pp. 9-12 Multicultural Identity in Elif Shafak's Honour Varde Hirenkumar Balavatbhai B.A., M.A., M.Phil., GSET., Pursuing PhD Gujarat university Ahmedabad Shri Hinglaj Krupa BH Hudko Fire Station Hudko C/237, Kothariya Main Road Rajkot 360002, Gujrat. Mo:9427272756 Email: hirenvarde3010@gmail.com Abstract - One of the most prolific, controversial and prominent female writers of Turkey, Elif Shafak touches on gender roles, immigration, quests for freedom and transformation which an individual makes in a new country in her eight novel, Honour. InnHonour, Shafak broadens her earlier writing on the theme of identity, to analyze what it means to be an immigrant when the authoritative cultures one has fled are still carried with them. This paper draws the attention to the perception of multicultural identity in Elif Shafak's eight novel, Honour (2013). 'Multiculturalism' is the harmony of various cultures, where culturenincludes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is demonstrated in traditional behaviors, cultural beliefs and values, motifs of thinking, and informative manners. Honour is a sample story of an immigrant minority which includes constant settlers who carry their own language(s) and culture(s) which are distinct from those of the host society. Keywords: Shafak, Novel, Identity, Family, Migration, Conflict, Multiculturalism. grounds to see the future and cast lead in order to ward off evil eye. Her grandmother had visitors who had strong I. INTRODUCTION Elif Shafak was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1971. She acnes on their faces or warts on their hands. At every turn, is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read her grandmother would whimper Arabic words and then woman writer in Turkey. Her books have been translated stick rose thorns on a red apple as the number of warts she into more than twenty languages. 'Shafak spent her would like to obliterate. Then she would take in a circle teenage years in Madrid, Spain before returning to her these thorns one by one with a black ink. One week later native Turkey. Throughout her life she has lived in the patient would come back for a check-up. It was against numerous cities and states, including Ankara, Turkey, science, but none of the people who came to visit her Cologne, Germany; Amman, Jordan; and Boston, grandmother, returned unhappily or without recovering. Michigan, and Arizona. She has at the same time been Shafak asked her grandmother how she managed this, if it was related to the power of the prayers. 'Yes, prayer is deeply attached to the city of Istanbul, which plays an important part in her fiction. As a result, a sense of efficient.' The grandmother replied. 'But, you should also multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism has consistently characterized both her life and her work.' Shafak considers herself as a story-teller. That is what she pay attention to the power of the circles'. That was one of the precious lectures, Shafak learned from her grandmother. 'If you would like to wipe off something in does