tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459915571089625512024-03-27T08:36:43.397+02:00NORA NADJARIAN"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
Robert FrostNora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-30401162869509249232020-12-24T22:28:00.008+02:002020-12-24T23:03:43.330+02:00New website/ New blog<p>This blog has moved. I have a new website and new blog<a href="https://www.noranadjarian.com/"> here.</a></p><p>Please visit www.noranadjarian.com for the latest news on my writing!</p>Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-29033544371942892152020-12-12T15:51:00.002+02:002020-12-12T15:51:44.143+02:00Another Writing Year...<p>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: </p><p>My poem <i>Nausicaa </i>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.<span style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">My poem</span></span></span> <i>Pindar Forgot to Mention, </i>on the character Protogeneia, was beautifully performed by Alice Barclay.</p><p>I also have short fiction forthcoming in the wonderful journals Sand and MoonPark Review.</p>Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-37722455715698360342020-09-16T20:40:00.003+03:002020-09-16T20:42:39.001+03:00Europa 28, Hay Festival<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Thrilled</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> to be one of the 28 women selected to offer their visions for the future at Hay Festival </span><a class="xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/europa28/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0">#europa28</a><span style="background-color: white;">, live and online 6 - 9 October. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">Participants include the fabulous </span></span><span face=""helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span>Leïla Slimani, Nora Ikstena and Kapka Kassabova. 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My tiny micro "Voyage" was a finalist in the annual New Zealand micro competition, I've had flash accepted by the wonderful "Lunate" and "Cabinet of Heed", my story "When We Lost It" was one of the winners in the March/April Didcot Writers flash competition - and my poem "Cassandra Speaks" was Highly Commended in the Ken Saro-Wiwa Poetry Competition 2020!<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;">CIRCLE SURFACE SUN </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">From Somewhere in the Mediterranean</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A few months ago I was commissioned to write a story inspired by the
Mediterranean light for the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>new book
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Vienna-based artists Irena Eden and
Stijn Lernout invited 22 authors from all the countries along the Mediterranean
basin to write about the light in their region. Whether autobiographical essay,
subjective commentary, poetic description, or philosophical reflection—the
texts were to articulate one or the other facet of the special light that
unites this geographic area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A photo series by the two artists on the subjects of sea and light
condenses the atmospheric connection between the texts and, at the same time,
documents the installative and illustrative way the two artists deal with the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The anthology situates its starting point in Albert Camus’ critical reflection on
Europe at his time and its Mediterranean utopia of solidarity and simplicity,
in which light and the sun play a major role. In the current economic,
environmental, and humanitarian crises, the idea of an inclusive Mediterranean
Europe based on cultural diversity seems to have eroded in favor of nationalist
interests, economic isolation, and populist ideologies fanning hate and fear.
In this climate, the prospect of reiterating Camus’ “solar thought” as an “art
of living for catastrophic times” has attained new urgency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The authors explore
their present day, looking out from the Mediterranean shores as the
mythological origins of Europe. <i>Circle Surface Sun</i> gathers these voices from
different places and myriad perspectives in an attempt to open a transnational,
border-crossing dialogue among countries and continents, and to create a space
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<br />Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-79978093619116826062020-04-25T21:06:00.002+03:002020-04-25T21:18:20.563+03:00National Flash Fiction Day Anthology<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More good news today! My story "Endless Possibilities" will be included in the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day anthology.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A note from the editors:<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>It was an incredibly difficult decision; not only was the standard of submissions exceedingly high, but we received nearly twice the number of entries as last year. Both editors read every piece anonymously, and a good proportion of the submissions many, many times more.</i></span></span>Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-15506757668504788912020-04-25T15:44:00.002+03:002020-04-25T21:20:06.374+03:00Hummingbird<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0.1em; padding-top: 0.1em;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The first hummingbird lived in Europe over 30 million years ago. Its colors were bright and bold, magnificent and stirring. When the hummingbird hovered above a flower with that spectacular blur of wings, its heartbeat was unbelievable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a beginning."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read my story "Hummingbird" on <a href="https://lithub.com/hummingbird/">Literary Hub</a>. It's the story with which I <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">represent Cyprus in the Hay Festival <b><i>Europa28</i></b> project and in the anthology </span><i><b>Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe</b></i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Comma Press, 2020<i>).</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The anthology may be ordered <a href="https://commapress.co.uk/books/europa28/">here</a>.<i> </i></span></div>
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Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-30826951736107115042020-03-29T15:26:00.001+03:002020-03-29T15:26:14.076+03:00This book. This beautiful book.Despite COVID-19, despite all the uncertainty, despite all the suffering, books exist.<br />
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Honoured to have been chosen to contribute to this outstanding anthology. My story "Hummingbird" with its miniature heart gives me a reason to smile, and to hope.<br />
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this immense performance. The onlooker, if there is one, feels ashamed, unable to
fathom the strenuous act. Everything is hovering and waiting." </span><br />
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Thank you Hay Festival, thank you Comma Press.<br />
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<br />Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-28914766609485385292019-08-30T18:20:00.003+03:002019-08-30T18:20:56.044+03:00"Shipwrecked" - Celebrating the 300th anniversary of Robinson Crusoe<br />
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"Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe was first published 300 years ago on 25th April 1719. In honour of the much loved classic, the Museum of Walking organised a flash fiction competition. The eight winning stories were published in this delightful anthology by Sampson Low publishers, London.<br />
I am thrilled to announce that my story "The Return" was one of the winners!<br />
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<br />Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-63121183266638647982019-08-01T19:32:00.003+03:002019-08-21T10:32:20.480+03:00VereinigungHonoured that <b><i>der Tagesspiegel</i></b> selected my story <a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/literarisches-colloquium-nora-nadjarian-vereinigung-zypern/24684250-2.html">"Unification"</a> to appear in their 22 July issue. "Vereinigung" by Nora Nadjarian, translated into German by Gregor Dotzauer.Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-44187491940975075402019-08-01T19:21:00.003+03:002019-08-01T20:31:48.385+03:00Flash & Poetry<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exciting things happened in June and July! My poetry appeared in Hebrew translation for the first time in <b><i>Oh!</i></b> literary magazine, Israel. Special thanks to editors Dory Manor and Sivan Beskin, and translator Meitar Kurman.</span><br />
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22 stories for 22 days... and my story was shortlisted on Bloomsday.<br />
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Writer-in-Residence at Goga residency, Novo mesto, Slovenia.<br />
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Chapter One The Dilemmas and Struggles of Female Intellectuals and Artists:<br /> Reading Anita Brookner’s Falling Slowly (Britain)</div>
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Chapter Two On the Exploration of an Authentic Female Self through Transgressive Sexuality and Its Limits: Reading Claire Keegan’s “Antarctica”(Ireland)</div>
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Chapter Four In Defiance of the Confining Law of the Islamic Father: Reading Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul (Turkey)</div>
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Chapter Five Seeking for a Home of One’s Own: Reading Marilynn Robinson’s Housekeeping (United States)</div>
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Freiheit“, hat die armenisch-zyprische Lyrikerin und Autorin Nora Nadjarian
einmal in einem Interview gesagt. <span lang="DE" style="color: #333333; font-family: "orf on" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Denn Schreiben gibt mir die Möglichkeit,
Welten zu erschaffen, Plätze und Charaktere ebenso wie die Gespräche, die sie
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Zuerst verschwanden ihre Füße, dann die Beine, die Hälse und Lippen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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armenische Flüchtlinge aus Kleinasien, aber meine Eltern sind schon in Zypern
aufgewachsen“, erzählt Nora Nadjarian. „Daher bin ich sehr international
erzogen worden. Zypern, das ist eine wunderschöne Insel und es ist mein Zuhause,
aber die Insel ist immer noch geteilt und wir leben hier unter surrealen
Bedingungen.“<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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schütteten Hände voll Sand in die Höhlen, sie auszubrennen,<br />
das Loch zu füllen, wo ein Herz drin schlagen sollte.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nora Nadjarian<br />
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Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-58896369280478551432018-12-19T21:01:00.001+02:002018-12-20T16:42:11.297+02:00As the year comes to an end...As the year comes to an end, I am counting my writing blessings and successes of 2018. <br />
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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!<br />
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Thank you, English School, for this tremendous honour.Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-10736523825518298552016-03-06T22:00:00.001+02:002016-03-06T22:00:37.061+02:00All Dutch to me...I will soon be having a new poem translated into Dutch.<br />
The theme? Europe and refugees.<br />
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All will be revealed in May.Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-61264350282973233912015-12-06T22:17:00.000+02:002015-12-06T22:17:09.062+02:00Tempus Fugit - the Morphou projectA percussionist, a photographer, two visual artists and a writer go on a coach trip to Morphou, Soli and ancient Vouni in the occupied north of Cyprus. Each is inspired by the trip in a different way. <br />
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We plan to present our combined artistic effort to the public in February 2016.<br />
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I am the writer. Watch this space.Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-30530212681023930152014-07-12T14:57:00.002+03:002014-07-12T14:57:48.046+03:00And this is what happens when you don't meet Etgar Keret...Click <a href="http://bookanista.com/not-etgar-keret/">here</a> to find out exactly what happened (or didn't happen) when I didn't meet Etgar Keret.Nora Nadjarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03776605471987006125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045991557108962551.post-21107479582141086172014-07-01T11:26:00.002+03:002014-07-01T11:27:07.193+03:00Please vote for my poem!<div>
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for my poem "Separation" and help me get to the next round in the Poetry
World Cup. If, for any reason, the poll isn't letting you vote, just
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I will not win anything, it is only for fun.<br />
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