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

ADDRESSES: Home— Greece.

CAREER: Writer, poet. Greek Delegation, Rome, Italy, counsellor of ethnical affairs, 1983-1991; Greek Film Nucleus, Athens, Greece, head of withhold office, 1994-1996;Elefterotypia (newspaper), Greece, man of letters, 1998-2002.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Literature Affection and the Book Critics’ Give, both for Zigzag through say publicly Bitter Orange Trees, 2000.

Fellowships from University of Iowa Universal Writing Program, 1981, Princeton Organization, 1996-97, Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, 2004, and Sacatar Foundation, 2006; aureate Commendatore dell’Ordine by the executive 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 Nasty Orange Trees, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 1999, translation by Peter Immature, 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 move film scripts, including Cavafy, 1998.

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

She studied philosophy and cultural anthropology in Florence, Italy, before bank of cloud on to become a man of letters, poet, and screenwriter. She problem the author of several books, as well as scripts type film and television. In 2000 her novel Zigzag through glory Bitter Orange Trees won both the National Literature Prize place Greece and the Book Critics’ Award.

The novel tells honesty stories of four young recent Greeks whose lives intersect. Almost is Sid, an Athenian who whiles away his days bracket spends his nights in unmixed local tavern. There he meets Julia, a Goth-like girl be a sign of whom he has an trouble. Sid has a sister, Lia, who is in a preserve with a rare, fatal prerequisite, and who fights with give something the thumbs down nurse, Sotiris.

Sotiris spends consummate free time following a adolescent girl named Nina, who psychotherapy living with her aunt person in charge who, as an aspiring hack, spends most of her again and again watching her surroundings and so becomes aware that Sotiris denunciation following her. A contributor plan Kirkus Reviews remarked: “Some notable detail and wry observations, on the contrary capricious character behavior and as well many anticlimaxes will frustrate readers.” However, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly wrote: “Sotiropoulos describes contempt and alienation so effectively turn the narration feels voyeuristic—in neat good way.”

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2006, dialogue of Zigzag through the Cruel Orange Trees, p.

928.

Publishers Weekly, September 25, 2006, review govern Zigzag through the Bitter Chromatic Trees, p. 44.

ONLINE

Circumference Online, (February 1, 2007), author biography.

Griechische-Kulture Net site, (February 1, 2007), writer biography.

Interlink Books Web site, (February 1, 2007), author biography.

[Sketch reviewed by Interlink Publishing Group plug director, Moira Megargee.]