Tint Author Talk | Nurture in Conflict Zones | Oana Aristide & Punyasloka Mohapatra
Published October 6th, 2026 Event
Monday, November 23, 2026 | 5 pm (CET) / 11 am (EDT) / 8:30 pm (IST)
Online via Zoom
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Join us and the Centre for Cultural Studies (University of Graz) for an exclusive online author talk with the translingual writers Oana Aristide and Punyasloka Mohapatra on the topic of “Nurture in Conflict Zones”!
At the event, the two authors will read from their work and join us for a discussion on the forms of nurture that we may find in times of hardship and unrest, and on the roles that contested artifacts such as bombs and AI may play in environmental, political and humanitarian crises. Questions from the audience are welcome!
The talk will be publically accessible and take place via Zoom: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/64142888662
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More on the authors:
Oana Aristide
Oana Aristide was born to parents of Romanian, Greek and Yemeni descent in Transylvania, Romania. Her family moved to Sweden after the fall of communism, and she worked in Bucharest and City of London as a macroeconomist. Her debut novel, Under the Blue, was published in 2021 by Serpent’s Tail. It was one of The Times Best Books of 2021, and was shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Book Prize and the Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize. Until recently, Oana lived on the Greek island of Syros, where she owned and ran a small award-winning hotel. She now lives in Sweden. ASTRONAUT! is her second novel.
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Punyasloka Mohapatra
Punyasloka Mohapatra is an Indian poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Madrid Review, Merion West, Gyroscope Review, and The Aftershock Review, among others. He was a finalist for the 2026 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, is shortlisted for the 2026 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize, and is currently working on his first full-length poetry collection.
Read Punyasloka’s poem “The Bomb Calls Itself a Gardener” in Tint Fall ‘26 here.
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This event is a cooperation between Tint and the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Graz.