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MARIA A. IOANNOU
Minimarket
Part of a series of monologues written in the Cypriot dialect, which investigate the position of women in the Cypriot society, “Minimarket” presents the stream of consciousness of a 50-year-old woman who works at a kiosk, through the combination of live reading and live sound/music. The rawness and immediacy of the language used - both reflecting and challenging patriarchal stereotypes and taboos - interweaves with electronic sounds and the contrabass. Words and sound/music become reversibly connected, through improvisation, thus exposing the chaos, roughness and nakedness which surrounds ourselves and the societies we live in.
Maria A. Ioannou is an award-winning writer, creative writing tutor and festival organiser (SARDAM festival) based in Cyprus. She studied English literature and 20th-century literature (BA University of Reading, MA King’s College London) and she holds a PhD in Creative Writing (University of Winchester). In 2019, she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence in Research Award. She has published two short fiction collections (The gigantic fall of an eyelash, Gabrielides Publishing 2011 – Emerging Writer State Prize, Cauldron, Nefeli Publishing 2015 – shortlisted for the Young Writer Award by the Greek magazine Klepsydra / Enastron). In 2019, she published the children’s book The jug and the fly (Patakis Publishing, illustrations by Philippos Theodorides) and her short fiction “Pillars” was nominated by SAND magazine in Berlin to be included in the anthology Best Small Fictions (USA).
www.maria-alpha-ioannou.com
Organised by
Cyprus High Commission in the UK - Cultural Section
In partnership with
Sardam Interdisciplinary Literature Festival
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