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Min Jin Lee is a South Korean American author who wrote two novels, Free food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a multi-generational saga following the story of a Korean family in Japan. Min is currently working on her third novel, American Hagwon.

Elif Shafak is a Turkish British writer. She has written 19 books, most of them novels, which have been translated into 55 languages. She is a Booker prize finalist, and her most recent novel - The Island of Missing Trees - tells the forbidden love story between a Greek Cypriot man and a Turkish Cypriot woman.

Elif and Min share with Kim Chakanetsa their rituals to get into writing mode.

Produced by Alice Gioia for The Conversation, ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service

(Image: (L) Elif Shafak, credit ´óÏó´«Ã½. (R) Min Jin Lee, credit Getty Images)