Eleonora Balsano @norami

Writer/Polyglot/Uprooted/Pushcart nom 23/LL Wigleaf top 50 23/SL @BridportPrize 21&24. 🎤Host & Producer Chosen Tongue/ Assoc dir @SalonEurope eleonorabalsano.net Brussels, Belgium Joined November 2008

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

2 months ago

Catching my breath after the wonderful salon in Berlin last night! Amazing readings and such a warm welcome every time. @SalonEurope is a magic place.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka

4 months ago

All I want is to hold your hands and feel your nearness. A modest wish? And yet it does not cleave the night and the distance. Franz Kafka, 1913.

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Impressions @impression_ists

6 months ago

Marc Chagall, Blue Lovers

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

7 months ago

@lumchanmfa @DeeshaPhilyaw @avitusbcarle MAny many congratulations Melissa!!!

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

7 months ago

@andrewbertaina Someone told me years ago : fifteen is a disease. I can now confirm that. Just passing it on :D

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

7 months ago

@andrewbertaina Can't wait to receive mine, any day now! Am totally hooked.

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European Writers Salon @SalonEurope

7 months ago

Epic online salon tonight! Book launches! European literature quiz! Amazing readings! You should all have been there....

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Fractured Lit @FracturedLit

8 months ago

New Flash by @CitizenBego "Winter lay down fat in its white robe as if to die. The war was over, and he ached to get home after years of service in foreign parts." fracturedlit.com/train-home/

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

8 months ago

Loved this! Perfectly bittersweet.

Ghost Parachute @GhostParachute

8 months ago

Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. tinyurl.com/3ep2nhhb

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European Writers Salon @SalonEurope

8 months ago

We also have many exciting online events coming up. First up is Café Littéraire: European Book Club, 7 October. We're discussing the excellent I Who Have Never Known Men with our host @norami

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

9 months ago

Just started reading a book about Joyce Lussu, a fascinating writer I have only just discovered. ‘Tis the poem she wrote for the love of her life, anti-fascist intellectual Emilio Lussu. ‘The long slumber was before Meeting you. Now that I’ve found you I don’t want to sleep I want my eyes open To see your face Now that you’ve smiled to me I want to always think’

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

9 months ago

I got married long before dating apps were invented & I often think about how my life would have been affected. Would have I used them or recoiled from? Do everyone now uses them?

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka

11 months ago

So, my dearest girl, it is evening again after a sleepless afternoon, nothing more is written, only to this girl to whom one always wants to write, from whom one always wants to hear, with whom one always wants to be, in whom one would most like to disappear. Franz Kafka, 1912

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

11 months ago

@andrewbertaina @undersunonline Love this Andrew

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European Writers Salon @SalonEurope

11 months ago

We're online for our salon this evening. If you're at a loose end join us! Our first reader is @AbbyManzella

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

11 months ago

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5s8ep3… or on any other podcasting platform

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Eleonora Balsano @norami

11 months ago

There is always a moment, when we start writing in a second language, that we self-censor, feeling the magnitude of our incompetence. We think we’re not ready, that we’re not ‘good enough’, as Heidi Marjamäki, author and associate fiction editor of @okaydonkeymag, explains in this last episode of Season 4. In the end, we realise there is no such thing as good enough when it comes to language, whether it’s our mother tongue or a second one. Language is always evolving, and so are we. Thank you all for listening and for writing such lovely reviews of the show. I’ll be taking a short break for the summer, but the list of guests for Season 5 is growing…