Background

Steps towards becoming an Author...

Aurora Kastanias started writing her personal diaries at the age of eight and proceeded writing/creating short stories for her school friends at the age of eleven. The passion for the art of writing led her to earn a Baccalaureate in Literature, and being ever since influenced by French 17^th and 18^th century authors.

While studying for her BA in Business Administration, in an American University in Rome, she further got enchanted by 19^th century existential authors as well as European ‘absurdism’ and the Theatre of the Absurd. She never misses a chance to quote her Irish beloved Samuel Beckett along with Eugène Ionesco and Harold Pinter and restlessly thanks her literature professors for the passion conveyed,

i.e., Mme Boulay and Mr. Miller.

It was only during her first visit to Lebanon, after having read Diderot’s works, that she engaged in the writing of her first, yet unfinished, existential novel. She then regrettably had to set her passions aside to earn her MBA in Project Management at the University of Wales and engage, alas, in a successful career as marketing and project consultant.

In 2011, she finally decided that writing was the only thing she truly wanted to do and gave up the “business world” to face the challenge and the readers, by becoming a published author of existential novels and participating in many literature competitions.

While she has chosen to write in Italian, as a tribute to a language she cherishes, highly respects and admires, she is currently engaged in the translation of her first published work:

Darius – Exilium Vita Est.