Author: 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.

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.

The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff

Nektaria Anastasiadou weaves a rich tale of thwarted love between Sephardic and Rum residents of Istanbul.