NORA NADJARIAN: December 2020

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Another Writing Year...

2020, what a strange year you have been! Though you deprived me of much of my freedom, you led me to success in other ways. Here's what happened in autumn/winter:

My poem Nausicaa was one of twenty shortlisted poems in the Live Canon International Poetry competition 2020 and is part of the anthology of the competition's longlisted poems. Later in the year, I was invited by Live Canon to write a poem inspired by one of the silent women characters in Pindar. My poem Pindar Forgot to Mention, on the character Protogeneia, was beautifully performed by Alice Barclay.

I also have short fiction forthcoming in the wonderful journals Sand and MoonPark Review.

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.

NORA NADJARIAN

Thursday, December 24, 2020

New website/ New blog

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Another Writing Year...

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