ERSI SOTIROPOULOS

Ersi Sotiropoulos is the author of sixteen books of fiction and poetry. She studied Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology in Florence and served for nine years as the cultural attaché for the Greek Embassy in Rome. Her work has been translated into many languages, and has been awarded in Greece with the National Book Prize twice, the Book Critics’ Award and the Athens Academy Prize, the Dante Alighieri Award for her poetry in Italy, and has been shortlisted for the European Book Prize. Her novel What’s Left of the Night won the Prix Méditerranée Étranger 2017 in France and the National Translation Award 2019 in the USA. She has written scripts for film and television, and has participated in exhibitions of Visual Poetry. She has been a fellow at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, at Princeton University, at Yaddo, at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany, at the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil, at Villa Yourcenar in France, and at the Bogliasco Foundation and Civitella Ranieri in Italy among others.