Soti Triantafyllou


Soti Triantafyllou is a Greek writer, columnist, translator, and political/social commentator. She is based in Athens and Paris.

Education

Soti Triantafyllou was born in downtown Athens. She attended English-Hellenic Elementary School and graduated from Arsakeion High School. Her further education includes: Diplôme d'Études de Lettres et Civilisation Françaises, Université de Nice, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nice, France, Bachelor of Science; Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Diplôme d'Études Approfondies, Faculty of History and Civilizations, EHESS, Paris, France, PhD, American History and Civilization, EHESS, Paris, France, PhD, History of American Cities, NYU . She did post-doctoral research at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré in Paris and at the EHESS.

Career

Soti Triantafyllou has worked as a political columnist for 35 years. She has contributed to most Greek dailies and magazines writing about international politics and, occasionally, about cars. She has also worked as professor of history and film studies at the Hellenic Film School, and she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia and at Aegean University, at the University of Athens. Her academic work includes the project “The Image of Los Angeles in the Movies” for the Centre d'Études Nord-Américaines, Paris, France. Her 10th novel, "Rare Earths", came out in October 2013. She is trilingual and she translates from four languages including Italian and German.
She won the 2018 National Award for Novel for her work The End of the World in an English Garden. Soti Triantafyllou is a militant atheist.
In 2010 she talked with Süddeutsche Zeitung about the skepticism of the Greek people following the election of Giorgos Papandreou.

Awards

  • Premio Alziator for Chinese Boxes, 2007
  • Queer Award for best play Mechanic Falls, 2014
  • Konstantinos Kalligas for Journalism, 2017
  • National Library Award for Best Novel The End of the World in an English Garden, 2019