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WINNER of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction and a 2025 International Impact Book Award
'A gifted writer' - Alicia Rudnicki for IndieReader
Eva Asprakis is the award-winning author of three contemporary fiction novels. Her first novel, Love and Only Water, was published in September 2022. Her second novel, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain, won the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction. On its release in March 2024, the novel was selected as a NetGalley Book of the Month, an IndieReader Approved and Best Reviewed Book, and a Reedsy Discovery Featured Recommendation. It was also a NoMo Book Club Pick, and one of ten titles longlisted for the 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. Eva's third novel, Ghost Flight, came out in May 2025, earning a GET IT Verdict from Kirkus Reviews who call the story ‘a sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads’. Both Ghost Flight and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain received Honorable Mentions at the 2025 New York Book Festival Awards. Ghost Flight was also awarded a 2025 International Impact Book Award, named a Quarterfinalist in the Publishers Weekly-sponsored 2025 BookLife Fiction Prize, and honored as a Top 100 Notable Book in the 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition.
Beyond publishing three novels, Eva has appeared on various podcasts and in publications including Cyprus Mail, Kirkus Reviews Magazine and The Publishing Post. In 2024, she spoke on the Literature panel at the Cyprus Diaspora Forum and ran a 'Writing as Remedy' webinar for World Childless Week. In 2025, she served as a judge for the Ink Book Prize for Fiction and became a member of the Technical Committee on Culture in Cyprus.
Born in London, England, Eva has spent her adult life in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she continues to live and write. Her work explores complex family dynamics, sexuality and womanhood, and the search for identity and belonging.