Nikolina Kulidžan
Nikolina Kulidžan is or has been many unpopular things: a refugee, a government employee, a childless middle-aged woman, and a self-published novelist. She lives with her husband John and dog Felix in a hilly neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Childless Aunt
Though a faint hope that I might yet conceive continued to smolder in the back of my mind, at some point it dawned on me that none of these joys and trials I wished for myself were exclusive to biological parents. I could love any child who needed me.
November 2025Across The River
Before the war you actually had to ask people’s names to know who they were. Now you can just observe what side of the river they live on. On the east side are the Bosniaks — Muslim citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the west are Croats, Catholic by faith. The two groups split my hometown of Mostar down the middle like an overripe pomegranate.
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