Nancy Jean Kricorian was born on September 19,1960) is an American author of the novels Zabelle (1997 and and Dreams of Bread and Fire.
23 Facts About Nancy Kricorian
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Nancy Kricorian is of Armenian descent on the paternal side and French-Canadian descent on the maternal side.
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Nancy Kricorian graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982 and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1987.
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Nancy Kricorian is a poet who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia.
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Nancy Kricorian is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project, and is a NAASR member.
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Nancy Kricorian first learned of the Affiche Rouge from Des terroristes a la retraite that appeared all over France starting on February 21,1944 bearing the photographs of Manouchian and other executed FTP-MOI members.
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Nancy Kricorian was especially struck by the marginal status of the individuals featured in the Affiche Rouge, noting a number of them were stateless people who had been stripped of their citizenship for being Jewish.
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Nancy Kricorian believes that American society has been deadened by consumerism and materialism into apathy and indifference to social problems, saying "They want us to watch TV and shop".
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Nancy Kricorian sees her novels as a way of awakening the world to pressing social and political questions.
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Nancy Kricorian admitted her work on her novel was slowed down by her activism as she joined the New York chapter of the feminist pacifist group Code Pink and stated "I devoted the six months leading up to the 2004 USpresidential election to unseating the junta".
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Nancy Kricorian wrote that it took her ten years to write the novel because:.
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Nancy Kricorian wrote that she had come to identify with her characters so much that she had unconsciously started to stockpile the food that the Pegorian family had missed under the Occupation.
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Nancy Kricorian intended her novel in part to be an act of political criticism as the FTP-MOI were banded as "terrorists" by Vichy France and as "Judeo-Bolshevik terrorists" by Nazi Germany, and are today remembered as heroic Resistance fighters, which led her to see parallels with modern politics.
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Nancy Kricorian further intended another parallel with the way that Armenian resistance groups under the Ottoman empire were banded as "terrorists" by the Ottoman state, which was used as excuse for anti-Armenian policies.
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Nancy Kricorian's work was part of the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books for which she wrote a piece based upon Ecclesiastes, a book of the Bible.
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Nancy Kricorian feels that direct action is necessary as she believes that the American media is under the control of large corporations allied to the USgovernment that preach a message of militarism to the American people.
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Nancy Kricorian was the coordinator of CODEPINK New York City from 2003 to 2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace.
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Nancy Kricorian was the fall 2015 writer-in-residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, and a fellow of Women Mobilizing Memory project at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Social Difference.
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Nancy Kricorian argued against the concept of "dialogue", which she felt was a subtle form of genocide denial as it implied that the fact of the genocide should be a subject of discussion and debate and that the position of the Turkish state that the genocide never occurred was just as valid as the Armenian position that the genocide did place; instead, she called for "co-resistance", urging Armenian and Turkish feminists to work together.
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Nancy Kricorian wrote that she felt an affinity for the Palestinian cause and compared Al-Naqba with the Armenian genocide in terms of impact on the respective communities.
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Nancy Kricorian cited Theodor W Adorno's remark that writing can be a way to recreate a lost homeland, which is why she felt that the Palestinian community had produced so many writers whose books deal with the themes of loss and exile.
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Nancy Kricorian supports boycotting Israel and in particular is against the Israeli cosmetic company Ahava, which operates a factory in the West Bank by the shores of the Dead Sea, where it extracts minerals it uses for its skin care products.
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In May 2021, Nancy Kricorian organized a petition criticizing the treatment of Israeli Palestinians by the Israeli government in the city of Lod.