Nancy Kricorian
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Nancy Jean Kricorian (Armenian: Նենսի Գրիգորեան) (born September 19, 1960) is an American author of the novels Zabelle (1997)[1] and Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003).[2] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel All the Light There Was in March 2013.
Biography[]
Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,[3] the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter.[4] She is of Armenian (father) and French-Canadian (mother) descent.[5][6]
Kricorian graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982 and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1987.[7][3] She is a poet[8] who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia.[3][9] She is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly,[citation needed] the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project,[10] and is a member.[11]
Her work was part of the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books for which she wrote a piece based upon Ecclesiastes, a book of the Bible.[12]
She was the coordinator of CODEPINK New York City[13] from 2003 to 2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace. She was the fall 2015 writer-in-residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University,[14] and a fellow of Women Mobilizing Memory project at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference.[15] Kricorian is married to producer and screenwriter James Schamus.[16]
Memberships[]
- Women Mobilizing Memory Fellow at The Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University (2013-2017)
- PEN American Center (2003)
- Ararat Literary Quarterly Editorial Board (1998-2004)
- Armenia Tree Project Executive Committee (2001-2016)[10]
- CODEPINK Women for Peace (2003-2016)[13]
- Board of the National Association of Armenian Studies and Research (2016)[11]
Honors and awards[]
- Writer in Residence, Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies, New York University, Fall
- 2015
- Gold Medal of the Writers Union of Armenia, 2007
- Anahid Literary Award, The Armenian Center at Columbia University, 1998
- Ararat Short Story Prize, 1997
- Daniel Varoujan Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1995
- Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., January 1991
- Educational Press Award, Editorial Category, 1991
- Judith's Room Emerging Talent Prize, 1990
- River Styx Poetry Prize, 1990
- Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1988
- Tuition Scholarship, School of Criticism and Theory, 1988
- Academy of American Poets Prize, Columbia, 1987
- Residency, Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France, Summer 1986
- Finalist, Benjamin Burns Poetry Contest, Columbia, 1985
- Graduate Writing Fellowship, Columbia, 1985
- Claire Woolrich Scholarship, Columbia, 1984
- Dartmouth Graduate Fellowship to the University of Paris, 1983-1984
- Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth, 1982
- Senior Fellowship, Creative Writing, Dartmouth, 1981
- The Alexander Laing Poetry Prize, Dartmouth, 1980 and 1981
Publications[]
Fiction[]
- All the Light There Was, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hardcover) March 2013; She Writes Press (paperback) October 2014
- Dreams of Bread and Fire, Grove Press (hardcover), May 2003,
- (paperback) April 2004
- Dreams of Bread and Fire foreign editions: Aras (Turkey, Nov. 2017);
- Editions Thaddée (France, forthcoming)
- “The Tin Cup,” excerpt from Zabelle, Salamander Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999
- Zabelle, novel, Atlantic Monthly Press (hardcover), January 1998 and Bard/Avon
- (paperback), March 1999 (later a HarperPerennial title); paperback reissued by Grove, September 2009.
- Zabelle foreign editions: Machborot (Israel, Nov. 98), Piper (Germany, Aug. 98), Gyldendal (Denmark, June 98), Vassallucci (The Netherlands, April 98), Writers Union of Armenia (Armenia, Dec. 07), Belge (Turkey, Feb. 08)
- "The Balcony," short story, Ararat, Fall 1997
- "Armenian Eyes," short story, Ararat, Spring 1991
References[]
- ^ Steinberg, Sybil S. (November 24, 1997). "Zabelle", Publishers Weekly 244 (48): 53.
- ^ Zaleski, Jeff (May 26, 2003). "Dreams of Bread and Fire", Publishers Weekly 25
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Nancy Kricorian". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ^ "Kricorian, Nancy 1960- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
- ^ "Proverbs, Politics, and Paris: An Interview with Nancy Kricorian".
- ^ "Nancy Kricorian | Page 6".
- ^ Nancy Kricorian on the page of Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference
- ^ Two pieces by Nancy Kricorian
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b "News | Armenia Tree Project". www.armeniatree.org. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Board Of Directors of National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-04. Retrieved 2012-06-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Nancy Kricorian on codepink.org
- ^ "about | Nancy Kricorian". Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ^ "Nancy Kricorian". Center for the Study of Social Difference. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ^ Carroll, Jerry (March 19, 1998). "Two writing powers", San Francisco Chronicle, p. E2.
- 1960 births
- People from Watertown, Massachusetts
- American women novelists
- Novelists from New York (state)
- American writers of Armenian descent
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- Armenian-American culture in New York City
- Armenian American literature