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Nitasia is a creative writer and a proud mum. And she’s an artist and craft caperer. Her best loves: literature & poetry, fantasy genre fiction, music, film, art & illustration, dance, decor, nature, dreams, and her sweet man A and her darling baby V.

A few favorite flicks: Withnail and I; Billy Elliot; Blow Up; Naked; A Very Long Engagement; About a Boy; Amelie; Jules et Jim; Hamlet; The Lives of Others; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Dreamers; A Room with a View; City of Lost Children; Hedgehog in the Fog; Pan’s Labyrinth; Howl’s Moving Castle; Dracula; The Crying Game; The End of the Affair; The English Patient; Bon Voyage; Bright Young Things; Oliver Twist; The Seventh Seal; Henry and June.

Very favorite reads: The Passion and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson; The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir; The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon; His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman; Perfume – Patrick Suskind; Chatterton – Peter Ackroyd; The Baron in the Trees – Italo Calvino; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke; Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence; Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson; The Mouse and His Child Russell Hoban; Shadow & Claw – Gene Wolfe; The Etched City – K.J. Bishop; The Colossus of Maroussi – Henry Miller; LOTR – Tolkien; The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice; Notebooks – Albert Camus; poems: Anna Akhmatova; Mallarme; Shelley, Bridget Pegeen Kelley; Charles Wright; Hart Crane; Rilke; Czeslaw Milosz

Very Favorite musicians: (wish I could list them all)
David Sylvian
Editors
Elbow
Faithless
Blonde Readhead
Massive Attack
Kate Bush
Radiohead
Zero 7
Sigur Ros
Everything But the Girl
Lamb
Interpol
Leftfield
Bloc Party
Rae & Christian
Paris Combo
Jurassic 5
Roots Manuva
St Germain
Nina Simone
DJ Krush
Echo and the Bunnymen
Portishead
Nick Drake
The Divine Comedy
David Gray (saw 3 live shows in Ireland during D.G’s best, early days, still can’t get him out of my heart, though the crappy supermarket radio play certainly drills a hole in the scalp)
Japan
The Smiths
Erik Satie
Artie Shaw

Very favorite food:
chocolate, of course
oh, and my daughter’s pink cheeks, kiss, kiss, kiss