beauty, colour, discovery, enchantment, happiness, sharing
Zorba, one of the world’s great nuannaarpoqians, questions the soul-expanding miracle of wine. A key aspects of his vivid living is his constant questioning and fresh experience of ordinary things. Nothing jaded or stale about his engagement with what many...
freedom, happiness, inspiration, resilience
Shirley is among the less known works of Charlotte Bronte. At a time when women had considerably fewer options in deploying their energies and talents, Shirley is a strong character with attitude and resources.  I loved the ‘Pah to all that’ feeling in...
inspiration, kindness, resilience
Certainly the strongest and most loving influence on Gorky’s troubled childhood was his grandmother. Her capacity to maintain her belief in life and humanity despite repeated evidence of its worst aspects, is astonishing.  Here Gorky pays tribute to the power...
inspiration, life, nuannaarpoq, resilience
Mary Delany (1700-1788) wins a Nuannaarpoq award, which will be formally bestowed elsewhere. She lived in an era which constrained women of her class like a thorax in a corset, making it hard to breathe. Yet despite some stunning denials of her freedom and feelings,...
