Henriette Lazaridis
Cognoscenti contributor
Henriette Lazaridis’ third novel “Last Days in Plaka,” set in contemporary Athens, will be published in April 2024. Her second novel "Terra Nova" explores a fictionalized version of the race to the South Pole. Her first novel, "The Clover House," was a Boston Globe bestseller. A Boston-area native, she lives in Cambridge and teaches at Grub Street in Boston.
Recently published
I found love after divorce. But I could only change so much about myself
When you form a new relationship as an older person, you have the chance to choose how you’re going to live, writes Henriette Lazaridis. I had the zany idea to...
The love letter my mother never sent me
A while back, Henriette Lazaridis listened to her mother read a letter she'd written, but never sent, decades ago. Lazaridis wonders how their relationship might have changed, if she'd seen...
My idol is an Antarctic explorer — and it's not Sir Ernest Shackleton
It may seem silly for a middle-aged woman to imagine herself as Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic explorer who died in 1912 after losing the race to the South Pole....