Author Talk Featuring Nancy Kricorian in conversation with Shahe Mankerian
Abril Books and Glendale Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale, CA 91205
We will discuss author Nancy Kricorian's latest novel, her writing process for the book, and much more with author/poet Shahé Mankerian. The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City. It is the story of an Armenian family in Nor Hadjin, Beirut before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War.
Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and is the author of four novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was translated into seven languages, was adapted as a play, and has been continuously in print since 1998. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Guernica, Parnassus, Minnesota Review, The Mississippi Review, and other journals. She has taught at Barnard, Columbia, Yale, and New York University, as well as with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in the New York City Public Schools, and has been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers since 2015. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Gold Medal from the Writers Union of Armenia, and the Anahid Literary Award, among other honors. She lives in New York City.
Shahe Mankerian is a poet, playwright, and a school principal. His poems have been published in various literary journals, and his first collection of poems History of Forgetfulness was published in 2021.
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