Alex Christofi
Alex Christofi is a British author and book editor.
Early life
Christofi was born in Dorset to a British mother and a Greek Cypriot father, and grew up in Bournemouth. He was educated at Bournemouth School, where his father was a teacher.He earned a degree in English from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Career
Before publishing his first novel, Christofi worked as a literary agent for over five years. In 2015, he published his debut novel Glass. It tells the story of Gunter Glass, a 22-year-old, half-German window cleaner. For Glass, he won the 2016 Betty Trask Prize. In 2017, he published his second novel, Let Us Be True, about a German-born couple falling in love in post-war France. His biography Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life was shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize.In 2015, Christofi was appointed commissioning editor for non-fiction at Oneworld, previously working for Conville and Walsh. In February 2020, it was announced he would be leaving Oneworld to join Transworld Publishers's non-fiction team as an editorial director in April of that year.