Waiting to give a talk about multilingualism in fiction writing at the University of Iowa, October 31, 2023.
NEKTARIA ANASTASIADOU is the 2019 winner of the Zografeios Agon, a Greek-language literary award founded in 19th-century Constantinople. In 2023, she represented Turkey and Greece as a visiting fellow at the University of Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Program.
Her debut novel, A Recipe for Daphne, 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.
Her second novel, Στα Πόδια της Αιώνιας Άνοιξης/Beneath the Feet of Eternal Spring, written in Istanbul Greek, was published in 2023.
Anastasiadou’s writing has also been included in syllabi at the University of Iowa, Boğaziçi University, Bilkent University, and Boston College. A selection of her short stories and essays can be found in The Markaz Review.