aurora kastanias

Born from a Greek, British, Ghanaian father and a Persian mother, I grew up in Rome, where my parents fled to during the Iranian Revolution. I attended a French Catholic international school and started writing my personal diaries at the age of eight, proceeding to create my first short stories for school friends at the age of eleven. The passion for the art of writing led me to earn a Baccalaureate in Literature, being ever since influenced by French 17th and 18th century authors.

While studying for my BA in Business Administration, at an American University in Rome, I further got enchanted by 19th century existential authors as well as European ‘absurdism’ and the Theatre of the Absurd.

In recent years I have written two existential novels in Italian, a language I very much respect and love to valorise. In recent months I have started studing astrophysics and writing poems in english, which finally brings me here.