NORA NADJARIAN: June 2019

Monday, June 17, 2019

Shortlisted!

Delighted to be shortlisted in the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day Micro competition with my story "On the Other Hand".
22 stories for 22 days... and my story was shortlisted on Bloomsday.

Art by Suus Agnes, Swimming sperm of algae and moss

Saturday, June 1, 2019

HAY FESTIVAL EUROPA28: VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

Hay Festival announced this week the selection of women writers, artists and scientists taking part in a new global project reimagining the future of Europe. I am thrilled to have been selected!

I am honoured to be one of these 28 women, one from each European country, representing a multi-disciplinary snapshot of the best minds of our time - including novelist Leïla Slimani, entrepreneur Hilary Cottam, activist Janne Teller and actress Lisa Dwan. Our short stories and essays will be published in the anthology, Europa28: Visions for the Future, edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave (Comma Press, UK).

More exciting news to follow!

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.