NORA NADJARIAN: As the year comes to an end...

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

As the year comes to an end...

As the year comes to an end, I am counting my writing blessings and successes of 2018.

Memorable highlights of the year: having my flash "My Idea of Paradise", one of the 12 winning entries of National Flash-Fiction Day's Flash Walk competition, read by an actor on Bristol Flash Walk 2018, being included in the anthology "The Stony Thursday Book" (edited by Nessa O' Mahony), having my short Pedro Almodovar inspired play "Catalina" performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, being invited to present my flash fiction in Cheltenham, England, and accepting an invitation to take part in an exciting European literary project... More details soon!

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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.