Nora Nadjarian

About Me

NORA NADJARIAN is a poet and writer from Cyprus. She has published three collections of poetry and her work has won prizes or been commended in various international competitions, including the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and the Féile Filíochta International Poetry Competition (Ireland). Her first collection of short stories, Ledra Street, was published in 2006.

Her second poetry collection Cleft in Twain was one of the books from Cyprus recommended in an article in The Guardian on the literature of the new member states of the European Union (1st May 2004). ). Her work was also included in May Day: Young Literature from the Ten New Member States of the European Union, published by the European Commission.

Her poems and short stories have been included in various anthologies and journals in Cyprus, Germany, India, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and the United States. In 2009, her story “And the Seven Dwarves” was a finalist from over 900 submissions in the Binnacle Sixth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition at The University of Maine at Machias (USA).

e-mail: noranadj@logosnet.cy.net

Why do you write?

Writing is magic. It relaxes me, makes me happy, frustrates me, moves me, makes me invent the world.

Any favorite authors? Books?

"The History of Love" Nicole Krauss
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" Tracy Chevalier