Memoirs

Kadir I. Natho was born, in 1927, in Hatramtook, Caucasus, one of the eleven children of Ishaq and Goshmafa Natkho—his Circassian (Adygha) parents. He became a refugee in 1943, surviving World War II, lived in Europe for years, and moved to Jordan in 1948. He immigrated from Amman to the United States in 1956 and settled in New York City in 1959, where he acquired “G. A. Press” and published his own bilingual magazine Circassian Star, in English and Circassian. He wrote a collection of short stories, Old and New Tales of the Caucasus, in 1969; a novel, Nicholas and Nadiusha, in 1978, translated into Russian and Circassian in 1993. He wrote a three-act play, Medeia, in Circassian, for the State Theater of the Republic of Adigey, which is scheduled to open in Maikop in April 2009.