Why 'She's not normal'? Cypriot-Australian Koraly Dimitriadis talks about her new poems

"She's not normal, why can't she be normal, she makes me feel really uncomfortable..." An empowering collection of poetry from bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet Koraly Dimitriadis, for people who are not normal. Koraly talks to SBS Greek

Koraly Dimitriades spoke to SBS Greek for her recent poetic collection titled ‘She’s not normal’.

We asked the

Cypriot-Australian writer, performer and bestselling poet

, why she chose the tile, and what is her ‘Australian Dream’, she speaks about the wogs of Australia, her love for Cyprus (and the differences with living in Australia) and how and where someone can find her books.

She is the author of the poetry books ‘Love and Fk Poems’ (also translated into Greek) and ‘Just Give Me The Pills’.

Stream free On Demand

Yiayia Mou (My Grandmother)

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Her debut short story collection ‘The Mother Must Die’ is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann by the end of 2024.

Koraly also creates film and theatre with her poetry.

Her latest poetry film,

'Yiayia mou' ('My Grandmother')

, was a finalist in the Multicultural Film Festival and is currently streaming on SBS On Demand.

In 2019, Koraly received the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow for her debut fiction manuscript.

Koraly's opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Aljazeera.