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Nektaria Anastasiadou

Nektaria Anastasiadou is the 2019 winner of the Zografeios Agon, a Greek-language literary award founded in 19th-century Constantinople. Her debut novel, A Recipe for Daphne (Hoopoe Fiction/AUCPress), was shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award and longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award. It was also a finalist (with an Honorable Mention) in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award and a 2021 Women’s National Book Association (US) Great Group Read. Anastasiadou speaks Greek, Turkish, English, French, Spanish, and Italian. She lives in Istanbul, where she is currently finishing a novel written in the Istanbul Greek dialect.

15 June, 2022 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

Nektaria Anastasiadou: “Gold in Taksim Square”

The novelist behind "A Recipe for Daphne" returns to multicultural Istanbul to write about love and death amongst the city's minorities.

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15 September, 2021 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff

Nektaria Anastasiadou The Bosporus, nor­mal­ly cobalt blue, went elec­tric turquoise that week­end. Some thought there had been a pol­lu­tion spill. Oth­ers said the change had some­thing to do with the… Continue reading The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff

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