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Nancy Kricorian

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Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, 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 latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. Her essays and poems 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
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Nancy Kricorian Sarine, Thanks so much for the kind words. I wish I could tell you that my new novel about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War were clos…moreSarine, Thanks so much for the kind words. I wish I could tell you that my new novel about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War were close to done, but I'm a slow writer. It will be a few more years! In the meantime I'd like to recommend a book to you--Vasily Grossman's memoir AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK. And if you like that then you could read his masterwork, the novel LIFE AND FATE. Best wishes, Nancy (less)
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All The Light There Was

3.88 avg rating — 1,336 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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Zabelle

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The Burning Heart of the World

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Dreams of Bread and Fire

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The Markaz Review Book Club, July 27, 2025

On Sunday, July 27th The Markaz Review Book Club will meet online to discuss "The Burning Heart of the World" with author Nancy Kricorian at 1pm EST/ 6pm UK/ 7pm CET. Sign up below to participate in the discussion. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis...


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In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s "The Burning Heart of the World" tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, dur Read more of this blog post »
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“This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will come again, even if you yourself don't live to see it.”
Nancy Kricorian, All The Light There Was

“On good days I felt like a chrysalis from which a butterfly had emerged, and on bad days I felt like a chewing-gum wrapper someone had thrown in the hedges.”
Nancy Kricorian, Zabelle

“She couldn't help it that she felt the suffering of others-kin and strangers, creatures that speak and creatures that can't speak-inside herself, as though the membrane separating her body from the world was thin and porous.”
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