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Kyra Giorgi Kyra Giorgi i(A152455 works by)
Gender: Female
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Kyra Giorgi is a writer and researcher with an interest in modern Turkey, post-Soviet societies and the Portuguese-speaking world.

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y separately published work icon The Circle and the Equator Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 9145964 2017 selected work short story

'In the dying days of the Russian Empire, a Scottish sound recordist disappears into the Caucasus mountains; a former hero of the Algerian resistance experiments with traditional Chinese medicine; a French anatomical artist models disfigured soldiers returned from the Crimea; in 1960s Poland, a grandmother hatches a plan when a Hollywood star comes to town; during the war in Vietnam, fate and superstition guide a Filipino cook toward a new vocation; in Weimar Berlin, a young man’s efforts to rehabilitate himself are derailed by a charismatic artist...

'Confronting, moving, and brilliantly original, Kyra Giorgi’s fascinating stories loop through time and place to delve into the lives of those caught at the articulation points of history. Deftly balancing the personal and the political with the historical and the medical, they explore the impact of conflict, the ethics of treatment and care, and the lengths to which we will go to preserve who we are.' (Publication summary)

2015 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
2017 winner Queensland Literary Awards Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award
The Circle and the Equator 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 217 2014; (p. 34-40)
2014 joint runner-up The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers
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