Amanda Michalopoulou

Amanda Michalopoulou (2012)

Amanda Michalopoulou ( Greek Αμάντα Μιχαλοπούλου ; * 1966 in Athens ) is a Greek author .

Life

Amanda Michalopoulou is one of the most distinguished and cosmopolitan writers in Greece. She studied French literature in Athens and journalism in Paris and worked as a columnist for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini from 1990 to 2008 . Her numerous scholarships have taken her to different places; She lived in Berlin from 2004 to 2010 and was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program in 2004 . In the meantime (status:?) She has published six novels, three volumes of short stories, several children's books and one novel for young people, three of them also in German translation. Her first novel, Octopus Garden , was named the best novel of the year by the literary magazine Diavaso in 1996 . Since then she has received several Greek and international prizes for her work, including for her collection of stories Λαμπερή μέρα 2013 the most important award for Greek authors, the National Prize for Literature of the Academy of Athens . Her works have now been translated into 12 languages. Today Michalopoulou lives and works in Athens. From June 21, 2015, she published a series of articles in Tagesspiegel about everyday life in Greece in times of crisis.

Works (excerpt)

German

• The heirs of Odysseus . Greek tales of the present. DTV Munich, 2001. (Four quartets. Pp. 50–58). ISBN 3-423-12905-0 .
• That's life . Novel. Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-34345308-6-2 .
• Octopus garden . Novel. Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-34345302-4-4 .

Greek

• Η γυναίκα του Θεού . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2014, ISBN 978-960-03-5747-9 .
• Έξω η ζωή είναι πολύχρωμη . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2014, ISBN 978-960-03-5695-3 .
• Έρχεται ο Ίνξορ . Patakis Publishers, Athens 2012, ISBN 978-960-16-4724-1 .
• Λαμπερή μέρα . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2012, ISBN 978-960-03-5458-4 .
• Η εγγονή του Αϊ-Βασίλη και η εξαφάνιση των ξωτικών . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2011, ISBN 978-960-03-5382-2 .
• Ελληνικά εγκλήματα 4 . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2011, ISBN 978-960-03-5317-4 .
• Πώς να κρυφτείς . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2010, ISBN 978-960-03-5140-8 .
• Η εγγονή του Αϊ-Βασίλη και τα μπισκότα της αγάπης , Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2009, ISBN 978-960-03-5010-4 .
• Ελληνικά εγκλήματα 2 . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-03-4732-6 .
• Η Χήνα , Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-03-4695-4 .
• Η εγγονή του Αϊ-Βασίλη . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2007, ISBN 978-960-03-4580-3 .
• Πριγκίπισσα Σαύρα . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2007, ISBN 978-960-03-4469-1 .
• Το ερωτικό των τεσσάρων . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2006, ISBN 960-03-4196-6 .
• Θα ήθελα . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2005, ISBN 960-03-4014-5 .
• Όσες φορές αντέξεις . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2005, ISBN 960-03-3954-6 .
• Γιατί σκότωσα την καλύτερή μου φίλη . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2003, ISBN 960-03-3349-1 .
• Παλιόκαιρος . Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2001, ISBN 960-03-2953-2 .
• Γιάντες , Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 1996, ISBN 978-960-03-1738-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Amanda Michalopoulou in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Amanda Michalopoulou in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Europe: a love story . Essay by A. Michalopoulou. In: From Politics and Contemporary History , December 18, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.biblionet.gr/author/1655/Αμάντα_Μιχαλοπούλου . Biblionet, accessed December 29, 2014 (Greek). 
2. ↑ www.kastaniotis.com/press/495 . Kastaniotis Edition, accessed December 29, 2014 (Greek). 
3. ↑ www.kathimerini.gr/63319/article/politismos/eikastika/aponomh-vraveiwn-ths-akadhmias-a8hnwn . Kathimerini, accessed December 29, 2014 (Greek). 
4. ↑ www.kastaniotis.com/author/308 . Kastaniotis Edition, accessed December 29, 2014 (Greek). 
5. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/griechischer-alltag-1-klinikbesuch-mit-dem-tod-im-wartesaal/12073126.html . Der Tagesspiegel, accessed on August 25, 2015 .