# Nancy Kricorian
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Nancy Jean Kricorian (Armenian: Նենսի Կրիկորյան) (born September 19, 1960) is an American author of the novels Zabelle (1997) and Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel "All the Light There Was" in March 2013.
== Biography ==
Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter.
Grace Paley: Speaking Truth to Power
This conversation, which took place on Grace Paley's birthday,
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“Coming to Terms” with Gendered Memories of Genocide War and Political Repression-Panel 3-Gender Memory Activism-HD
“Coming to Terms” with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
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Don't Look Now: A Literary Series for Artsakh
Dear friends and colleagues, On September 27th, Azerbaijan, directly aided by Turkey, launched a massive assault on Nagorno Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian territory known to Armenians as Artsakh. Since then, both Artsakh and the Republic of Armenia have been under attack. Artsakh’s capital, Stepa…
Author Talk with Nancy Kricorian
https://nancykricorian.net/In vivid, poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of ZABELLE, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds a…
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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 continuo…
168. Nancy Kricorian | The Burning Heart of the World: a new novel
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Hi there,
Today I am delighted to be arts calling novelist Nancy Kricorian! (https://nancykricorian.net)
About our guest:
Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Wate…
S6 E18 Nancy Kricorian
Join Elizabeth for a chat with author Nancy Kricorian, discussing her writing including her new novel The Burning Heart of the World out now on Red Hen Press.
Find out more here:
https://nancykricorian.net/
Links to other topics discussed:One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian (1972 Caldecott Medal) htt…
Writer to Writer December 7, 2025 Nancy Kricorian
Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers.
The guest: In vivid, poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of ZABELLE, her popular first novel, Kricorian co…
Episode 21! Writing Young Armenian Women Heroes w/Nancy Kricorian
We talk to Nancy Kricorian about her four novels and what it means to write Armenian young women heroes. We also touch on the ways in which these stories also teach us about heroic everyday acts that women do today amid genocide in Gaza and what Armenian community building can be about.
Nancy Kric…
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