Eleonora Balsano

Writer/Polyglot/Uprooted/Pushcart nom 23/LL Wigleaf top 50 23/SL @BridportPrize 21&24. 🎤Host & Producer Chosen Tongue/ Assoc dir @SalonEurope

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

Thank you so much Jon for this opportunity and for the amazing reading you and Emma did of two of my stories. It was a wonderful experience! 🙏🙏🙏

[Short Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast @ShortStoryToday]

OUT NOW! Italian author Eleonora Balsano (who lives in Brussels) speaks & writes in multiple languages - but feels most @ home writing in English. While it's not her mother tongue, it's a language she's come to believe affords her more freedom as a writer. https://t.co/tGqa4lILhQ

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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.

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

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.

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

"Would I live my life over again? / Make the same unforgiveable mistakes? / Yes, given half a chance. Yes."

Raymond Carver:

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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

[European Writers Salon @SalonEurope]

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

[Fractured Lit @FracturedLit]

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."

https://t.co/UvQTPjAFvb

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

Loved this! Perfectly bittersweet.

[Ghost Parachute @GhostParachute]

Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. https://t.co/iqcZnApbwC

[European Writers Salon @SalonEurope]

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

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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’

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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?

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

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

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

@andrewbertaina @undersunonline Love this Andrew

[European Writers Salon @SalonEurope]

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

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

Listen here: https://t.co/H38lff3ohp or on any other podcasting platform

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

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…

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

@brecht_dp Am I the only one who never misses the good ol’ days? Happy bday to you both!

[Eleonora Balsano @norami]

@andrewbertaina Oh I wanted to read it!