Amanda Michalopoulou
Amanda Michalopoulou is a Greek author. She has published nine novels, several collections of short stories and books for children. Her works have been translated in more than twenty languages and have won the National Endowment for the Arts International Literature Award 2008, the Athens Academy Prize and the Diavazo Award. She was short listed twice for the ALTA Literary Prize in USA.
Biography
Amanda Michalopoulou was born in Athens, Greece and currently teaches creative writing. She previously studied French literature in Athens, and journalism in Paris. She lives in Athens with her husband, photographer Dimitris Tsoumplekas.Career
Michalopoulou began by writing short stories, and won the Best Short Story Prize from Revmata, a Greek literary magazine, in 1993. In 1994, she published her first collection of short stories, Éxo i zoi ine políchromi. Her other collections of short stories, published subsequently, include Lamperi Mera and Tha Ithela. Tha Ithela won the National Endowment for the Arts' International Literature Award 2008 for the English translation, and was on the long list for the Best Translated Book Award. Her stories have been published in the Harvard Review, PEN Magazine, Asymptote, Brooklyn Rail, ''World Literature Today and The Guardian.She wrote several novels, including Jandes, which won the Diavazo Critics' Prize in Greece; Osses forés antéxis, Paliókeros, Pos na kryfteis, and Lamperi mera. Michalopoulou has also written several children's books. In collaboration with Dimitris Tsoumplekas she wrote I Hina. Her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. She was a contributing editor for the newspaper Kathimerini'' from 1990 to 2008. More information at