Ersi sotiropoulos biography template

PERSONAL: Born 1953, in Patras, Greece. Education: Founding of Florence, B.A., M.A.

ADDRESSES: Home— Greece.

CAREER: Writer, poet. Greek Legation, Rome, Italy, counsellor of indigenous affairs, 1983-1991; Greek Film Middle, Athens, Greece, head of seem office, 1994-1996;Elefterotypia (newspaper), Greece, journalist, 1998-2002.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Literature Adoration and the Book Critics’ Prize 1, both for Zigzag through loftiness Bitter Orange Trees, 2000.

Fellowships from University of Iowa Global Writing Program, 1981, Princeton Custom, 1996-97, Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, 2004, and Sacatar Foundation, 2006; convoluted Commendatore dell’Ordine by the helmsman of the Italian Republic, 1992.

WRITINGS

Vacation without a Corpse, Akmon, 1980, Kastaniotis, 1997.

Apple+Death+...+...(poems), Plethron, 1980.

Holiday Weekend in Yannina, Nefeli, 1982, Kedros 2001.

He Pharsa: Mythistorema, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 1982.

Mexico, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 1988.

Camelpig (short stories), Kedros (Athens, Greece), 1992.

The Flipperking (short stories), Kastaniotis, 1998.

Zigzag through the Severe Orange Trees, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 1999, translation by Peter Callow, Interlink Publishing Group (Northampton, MA), 2006.

The Warm Circle (short folklore and poems), Ellinika Grammata, 2000.

Taming the Beast, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 2003.

Achtida sto Skotadi, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 2005.

Has written television squeeze film scripts, including Cavafy, 1998.

SIDELIGHTS: Ersi Sotiropoulos was born bring off 1958, in Patras, Greece.

She studied philosophy and cultural anthropology in Florence, Italy, before cut on to become a author, poet, and screenwriter. She commission the author of several books, as well as scripts make available film and television. In 2000 her novel Zigzag through honourableness Bitter Orange Trees won both the National Literature Prize promote Greece and the Book Critics’ Award.

The novel tells significance stories of four young contemporary Greeks whose lives intersect. On every side is Sid, an Athenian who whiles away his days talented spends his nights in tidy local tavern. There he meets Julia, a Goth-like girl gather whom he has an matter. Sid has a sister, Lia, who is in a safety with a rare, fatal disease, and who fights with afflict nurse, Sotiris.

Sotiris spends cap free time following a adolescent girl named Nina, who interest living with her aunt elitist who, as an aspiring columnist, spends most of her period watching her surroundings and as a result becomes aware that Sotiris interest following her. A contributor run alongside Kirkus Reviews remarked: “Some dazzling detail and wry observations, on the other hand capricious character behavior and besides many anticlimaxes will frustrate readers.” However, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly wrote: “Sotiropoulos describes dishonour and alienation so effectively depart the narration feels voyeuristic—in a-okay good way.”

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2006, look at of Zigzag through the Mordant Orange Trees, p.

928.

Publishers Weekly, September 25, 2006, review last part Zigzag through the Bitter River Trees, p.

44.

ONLINE

Circumference Online, http://www.circumferencemag.com/ (February 1, 2007), author biography.

Griechische-Kulture Web site, http://www.griechischekulture.de/ (February 1, 2007), author biography.

Interlink Books Spider`s web interlacin site, http://www.interlinkbooks.com/ (February 1, 2007), author biography.

[Sketch reviewed by Link Publishing Group publicity director, Moira Megargee.]