Grigori made his debut with The Cartographer of Silence (2006), a novel in which a son pieces together his father's unspoken wartime past. His breakthrough, Ashes and Honey (2011), a multigenerational saga of a diaspora family, earned international acclaim and established him as a major voice in contemporary European fiction. He followed it with the short story collection The Winter of the Alphabet (2015) and the novel A House Made of Names (2019), an intricate meditation on identity and belonging. His most recent book, The Blue Hour of Babel (2023), has been praised as his most ambitious work. Grigori lives in Edinburgh, where he continues to write and translate.
Elliot Grigori
Elliot Grigori (born 1974) is a British-Armenian novelist, short story writer, and essayist renowned for his lyrical prose and his sustained exploration of memory, exile, and inherited silence. Born in Marseille to a family of Armenian refugees, he moved to London in childhood, and the experience of living between languages and cultures became the central current of his work. After studying comparative literature at Oxford, he spent several years as a literary translator, an apprenticeship he credits for the precision and restraint of his style.