NORA NADJARIAN: High Heels, etc.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

High Heels, etc.

I've been ogling high heeled shoes in shop windows.
I've been reading Simon Van Booy and thinking about his life as a single father.
I haven't been doing much writing.
This is my first post in ages.

I sometimes wonder if anyone actually reads or cares about what I write in this blog.
Feedjit tells me people from around the world actually do "visit"... Would be nice to know who these anonymous visitors are!

4 comments:

practiceOctober 24, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Hallo Nora! I hope your ankle is better enough to wear high heels again. FYI, I found your blog on networkedblogs when I first started blogging myslef, and it was through you I found 6S, for which many many thanks!
Julia
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Christodoulos MakrisOctober 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM
Hi Nora, I found out about your blog a month or two ago, through Southword. I wish you a fruitful return to writing...
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Nora NadjarianOctober 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM
Hey, thank you guys, for your good wishes! Julia, so glad my blog was of service!! Chris, I'm sure I've seen your name in poetry journals. (And always nice to meet another Cypriot who writes in English!)
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Rose HunterNovember 4, 2010 at 1:25 PM
Hello! This is my first visit to your blog, but I enjoyed your talk with Michael White at s-Press. I thought I'd comment so as not to be an anonymous visiter!
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Biography

Nora Nadjarian is an award-winning Cypriot poet and writer. She has represented Cyprus at literary events and festivals in Europe and elsewhere, including Frankfurt Book Fair and Dresdner Bardinale and within the framework of EU2016, in the poetry project ‘In European Poetry I want to live’ (Amsterdam).

Her work has been cited or published in the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Telegraph and has also won prizes and commendations in international competitions, including the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, the Féile Filíochta International Poetry Competition, the Binnacle International Ultra-Short Competition and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. Her work deals with the themes of women, refugees, identity, exile, love and loss, as well as the political situation in Cyprus.

In Cyprus she is best known for her book of short stories “Ledra Street” (2006) but has had poetry and short fiction published internationally. Her work was included in A River of Stories, an anthology of tales and poems from across the Commonwealth, illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski, Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive Press), Being Human (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) and Capitals (Bloomsbury, 2017).Her latest publication is the collection of short stories Selfie (Roman Books, 2017) and her short plays “Mermaid” and “Catalina” were recently performed at the Old Red Lion theatre in London.

Her special interest lies in the teaching of creative writing. In recent years she has facilitated several creative writing workshops– in English, Greek and German – at schools, universities and prisons in Cyprus and Germany.