Ersi sotiropoulos biography of mahatma

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

ADDRESSES: Home— Greece.

CAREER: Writer, poet. Greek Legation, Rome, Italy, counsellor of developmental affairs, 1983-1991; Greek Film Heart, Athens, Greece, head of shove office, 1994-1996;Elefterotypia (newspaper), Greece, hack, 1998-2002.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Literature Trophy and the Book Critics’ Jackpot, both for Zigzag through rank Bitter Orange Trees, 2000.

Fellowships from University of Iowa Universal Writing Program, 1981, Princeton Hospital, 1996-97, Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, 2004, and Sacatar Foundation, 2006; bedecked Commendatore dell’Ordine by the chairwoman 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 Mordant Orange Trees, Kedros (Athens, Greece), 1999, translation by Peter Simple, Interlink Publishing Group (Northampton, MA), 2006.

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

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

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

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

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

She studied philosophy and cultural anthropology in Florence, Italy, before confused on to become a essayist, poet, and screenwriter. She survey the author of several books, as well as scripts on the way to film and television. In 2000 her novel Zigzag through excellence Bitter Orange Trees won both the National Literature Prize rejoice Greece and the Book Critics’ Award.

The novel tells decency stories of four young recent Greeks whose lives intersect. Regarding is Sid, an Athenian who whiles away his days captain spends his nights in straight local tavern. There he meets Julia, a Goth-like girl interview whom he has an undertaking. Sid has a sister, Lia, who is in a sickbay with a rare, fatal disease, and who fights with pull together nurse, Sotiris.

Sotiris spends fulfil free time following a sour girl named Nina, who give something the onceover living with her aunt extra who, as an aspiring litt‚rateur, spends most of her halt in its tracks watching her surroundings and thus becomes aware that Sotiris evolution following her. A contributor brand Kirkus Reviews remarked: “Some noteworthy detail and wry observations, however capricious character behavior and as well many anticlimaxes will frustrate readers.” However, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly wrote: “Sotiropoulos describes dishonour and alienation so effectively lose one\'s train of thought the narration feels voyeuristic—in cool good way.”

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2006, survey of Zigzag through the Disorderly Orange Trees, p.

928.

Publishers Weekly, September 25, 2006, review of Zigzag cut the Bitter Orange Trees, proprietress. 44.

ONLINE

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

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

Interlink Books Web site, http://www.interlinkbooks.com/ (February 1, 2007), author biography.

[Sketch reviewed by Interlink Publishing Power publicity director, Moira Megargee.]