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Soti Triantafillou
Soti TriantafillouSoti Triantafillou was born in Athens in 1957. She holds a double doctorate in the history of urban culture (US) and in film studies (France), and has taught and written on film theory. With three books on the history of film to her name, she is also a distinguished translator of English, French, German and Italian, and has translated works by major authors such as Henry James, D.H Lawrence, Virginia Woolfe, John Updike, Jean-Luc Godard, Max Frisch and Cesare Pavese. Collections of short stories by Soti Triantafillou were published in the early 1990s, followed by the novels Savvato vradi stin akri tis polis (Saturday night on the edge of the city, 1996), Avrio mia alli chora (Tomorrow another country, 1997), Ypogeios ouranos (Subterranean sky, 1998) and To ergostaseio ton molyvion (The Pencil Factory, 2000). A cosmopolitan at heart, her first novel was the story of Greek students in New York. She later returned to the American setting feeling so comfortable there that her latest novel, Poor Margo, was written in English and translated into Greek as I ftochi Margo (2002). The Pencil Factory marked a turn towards historical themes and her forthcoming novel is be set in London amidst the suffragette movement.
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