“Sometimes I need to read whole volumes to write a single page. Other times, the text comes out as if someone were dictating it to me, with nothing preceding it. It forms in my mind, say, while I’m washing the dishes. And then I begin to write the way you dive into...
“…yet we have never heard of any country measured by its per capita culture, its per capita humanity, or its per capita happiness.”~ Costas Montis Costas Montis (1914–2004) was born in Famagusta. He studied law at the University of Athens and worked in journalism,...
“Words. My bitter dreams, my silent sheaves, between the chasms my hands have bled pulling you out. You cannot be uprooted.”~ Costas Vasileiou Costas Vasileiou was born in Pano Deftera in 1939. A poet deeply connected to the Cypriot land, nature, and dialect, he has...
“Sometimes I feel we are alone in a room, fighting to make our voice heard.”Constantia Soteriou Constantia Soteriou was born in Nicosia. She studied at the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cyprus and holds a postgraduate degree in...
“No one writes in isolation. One writes toward the other, and from that gesture, literature becomes relationship.”~ Costas Lymbouris Costas Lymbouris was born in Nicosia in 1950 and grew up in Kato Dikomo. He worked as a philologist in secondary education, eventually... 