Karafilly, Irena

Irena Karafilly is a Canadian-educated writer, journalist, and aphorist, whose short fiction has won several literary prizes, including the National Magazine Award and the CBC Literary Award. Her work has been broadcast, anthologised, and published in several countries, in both commercial and literary magazines; her articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, including the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Karafilly currently divides her time between Greece and Canada, where she has published three acclaimed books. The Captive Sun is her first novel.;