NORA NADJARIAN

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Participation in "Sardam: Alternative Literary Festival"

A performance of my work "Tempus Fugit" in October 2016.

Photos by Ore.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

International Women's Day 2016

Thank you, English School, for this tremendous honour.

All Dutch to me...

I will soon be having a new poem translated into Dutch.
The theme? Europe and refugees.

All will be revealed in May.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Tempus Fugit - the Morphou project

A 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.

We plan to present our combined artistic effort to the public in February 2016.

I am the writer. Watch this space.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

And this is what happens when you don't meet Etgar Keret...

Click here to find out exactly what happened (or didn't happen) when I didn't meet Etgar Keret.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Please vote for my poem!

I don't normally ask people to do this, but please vote 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 leave the name of the poem/country you'd like to vote for in the comments.

I will not win anything, it is only for fun.

http://themissingslate.com/2014/07/01/round-2-singapore-cyprus/#.U7JlELHc03V

THANKS

Monday, June 30, 2014

Poetic Victory

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.