Saturday 27, 2024 at 12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific
On Zoom.

FEATURED AUTHOR
AIDA ZILELIAN, Author and Tololyan Literary Prize recipient

CONVERSANT
NANCY AGABIAN, Author and PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction finalist

By turns heartfelt and heart-wrenching, All the Ways We Lied introduces a cast of tragically flawed but lovable characters on the brink of unraveling. With humor and compassion, this spellbinding tale explores the fraught and contradictory landscape of sisterhood, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common, and are bound by blood and history.

Aida Zilelian is a first generation American-Armenian writer and educator. She is the author of The Legacy of Lost Things, recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. Zilelian has been featured on NPR, The Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Poets & Writers. Her short story collection, These Hills Were Meant for You, was shortlisted for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Award. She lives in Queens, New York. Aida's most recently completed novel, All The Ways We Lied, was published in 2024.

Nancy Agabian is author of Princess Freak (2000), Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (2008), and the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction finalist - The Fear of Large and Small Nations (2023).

Literary Lights is a monthly reading series organized by the IALA, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. The series features new works of literature by Armenian authors. Each event—held online—will feature a writer reading from their work, followed by a discussion with an interviewer and audience members.

CO-SPONSORS
International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA)
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center

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