Twenty-five years old and three books into her career, Eva Asprakis is fast becoming an author to watch. Her work is not only garnering critical acclaim but also putting Cyprus, a small island often overlooked in global fiction, firmly on the map. Through her deeply personal yet widely relatable storytelling, Asprakis has crafted a voice that transcends borders, cultures and Generations.
Born in South London to a British father and an American mother, Asprakis describes a profound bond with her Cypriot stepfather, who raised her from early childhood and later adopted her. It is to her multicultural upbringing that she attributes the layers in her writing. “As a child of divorce and someone who grew up with sets of extended family from three different cultures,” she said in a recent interview with The Publishing Post, “I’ve been adapting my voice to varied surroundings for a lifetime.”
Asprakis’s 2022 debut novel, Love and Only Water, follows a young woman navigating love, loss and cultural identity in Nicosia, a city broadly known as ‘Europe’s last divided capital’. It was a quiet but confident entrance into the literary world, earning praise for its lyrical prose and fresh perspective on the Cyprus divide. But it was Asprakis’s 2024 follow-up, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain, that cemented her name as one to know.
Inspired by Asprakis’s own experiences with immigration to Cyprus and infertility due to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the novel is a nuanced exploration of belonging and womanhood. Readers and critics alike were struck by the honesty in Asprakis’s voice, with IndieReader’s Alicia Rudnicki calling her ‘a gifted writer’ and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain a book that ‘deserves attention’.
It went on to win the Ink Book Prize for Fiction in September 2024. In her 2025 release, Ghost Flight, Asprakis turns her attention to Cyprus’s recent past. Set in the leadup to the 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 disaster – the deadliest aviation accident in Cyprus’s history – Ghost Flight follows two couples whose private heartaches prelude the public tragedy.
Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as ‘a sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads’, Ghost Flight stands out as Asprakis’s most poignant work to date. More than just a writer, Asprakis is emerging as a cultural voice for her generation. A recently approved member of the Technical Committee on Culture in Cyprus, she has been a guest speaker at the Cyprus Diaspora Forum (2024), a judge for the Ink Book Prize for Fiction (2025), and a contributor to various panels on literature and identity. In 2024, she led a webinar titled ‘Writing as Remedy’ for World Childless Week, sharing how creative writing had helped her to process grief and find community after a miscarriage.
She was also named one of Ever-Growing’s Emerging Authors to Watch in 2025.Perhaps what makes Asprakis’s work so significant is her ability to tell intrinsically Cypriot stories in ways that speak to global audiences. Without shying away from the complex history or politics of her home country, she writes human tales – of love and loss, trauma and recovery, familiarity and estrangement – that could resonate anywhere. And yet, Cyprus remains as vital to her novels as their living, breathing characters.
In her 27 August discussion with the Lindy Book Club Greece, Asprakis said, “there is so much about its [Cyprus’s] varied landscape, tradition, conflict, division, opening and closing borders, starting and stopping settlement talks, that mirrors human experience and interaction…Even when the protagonists in Ghost Flight feel lost, there is a sense that within Cyprus, they’re not Alone.”
Based in Nicosia, Asprakis is currently working on her fourth novel, due in 2026. While she remains tight-lipped about its plot, she hints that it will continue her explorations of grief, love and identity in Cyprus. In her July interview with What We Reading, she expressed the hope that her work would “bring interest to Cyprus, which is more than just its beaches, and to Cypriot stories, which do not all begin and end with the conflict in 1974. We have other, ongoing tales here, which I believe are worthy of telling the world.”
Asprakis’s own journey – shaped by complex family ties and a struggle for belonging – mirrors the themes in her work. With her gift for transforming personal experience into universal fiction, she is not only forging her path as a writer but also bringing Cyprus into the global literary spotlight, with stories rooted in the small island whose emotional truth belongs to us all.
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