Louise Domaratius is an American writer and teacher living in France. A summa cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, she first studied in France on a Fulbright Scholarship. She holds a Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes from the University d'Aix-en-Provence, and an Agrégation d'Anglais. Her highly acclaimed first novel, Gadji was published in 2002.
Louise Domaratius’s short stories have appeared in AIM (America’s Intercultural Magazine) and Full circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. She won the Abbey Bookshop (Paris) Short Story Award in 2000 and was a winner of the New York Stories 2002 Short Fiction Contest for The Definition of a Russian String Quartet. Her short play, Brides of the Holy Land, received a public reading by the Paris Troupe "Moving Parts."
An expatriate American in France helps a Bosnian Gypsy gain asylum. A deeply moving story of Love, Marriage, & Language.
Europe is, once again, filled with refugees from sudden warzones. Meho, possibly a Bosnian Muslim along with his second wife & three children, have made their way West from Sarajevo. With a life full of music & loss, his arrival in Ellen Aubert's life is like the kiss from the prince to awaken sleeping beauty.
Quality Words in Print is proud to announce that Gadji by Louise Domaratius is the winner of the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Award™: The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book--Fiction. The Benjamin Franklin Awards™ are sponsored by the Publisher's Marketing Association, & celebrate excellence in editorial & design.
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Writing the Book of Ester ISBN: 0971316015 · 2003 Quality Words in Print
An American-born English teacher in France is intrigued by the story of an Iranian student.
Celia Davis, 29 years old & recently divorced, has secured a good position teaching English in the beautiful Loire Valley. Among her students is a mysterious, mature young man who tells her of his family--a Muslim father, a Jewish mother & a twin sister.
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