Author

Christy Lefteri

Aspen Words Literary Prize winner; creative-writing lecturer at Brunel University London

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Brought up in London, Christy Lefteri is the child of Cypriot refugees. Her novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, was an international bestseller, selling well over a million copies worldwide and published in over 40 countries. It won The Aspen Literary Prize, was runner up for The Dayton Literary Prize and won the Prix de l'Union Interalliée for Best Foreign novel in France. It was also adapted as a play for The Nottingham Playhouse and toured the UK. The Book of Fire, Christy Lefteri's latest powerful novel, was shortlisted for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place
at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.

Born1980 · London, United Kingdom

Notable works The Beekeeper Of AleppoSongbirdsThe Book of Fire

HonoursAspen Words Literary Prize (2020)

Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.— The Beekeeper of Aleppo