Ioanna Karystiani

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Ioanna Karystiani (Greek Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη; born September 8, 1952 in Chania , Crete ) is a Greek writer and screenwriter. She is considered an important representative of contemporary Greek literature.

Life

Ioanna Karystiani grew up in Chania on Crete as the child of refugees from Asia Minor . She studied law in Athens and belonged to the generation of students who fought against the Greek military dictatorship in the early 1970s . After graduating, she made a name for herself as a cartoonist , including for the Greek communist newspaper Rizospastis (Greek Ριζοσπάστης) and the magazines Tetarto , Ena and Eikones . She made several documentaries, including a film portrait about Christa Wolf . She published her first prose texts in the 1990s.

She lives in Athens and on the Greek island of Andros and is married to the film director Pantelis Voulgaris . You have two children.

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She began her writing career in 1995 with the volume of short stories I kyria Kataki (German: Mrs. Kataki ), soon followed by her debut novel Mikra Anglia (German: Little England ), which stayed on the Greek bestseller lists for months and won the Greek State Prize for Literature was awarded. In 2001, Suhrkamp Verlag published it in German translation under the title Die Frauen von Andros . He tells a tragic family saga from 1927 to 1948 on the island of Andros, the center of which is the unhappy story of two sisters who love the same man, a seafarer. Tilman Spreckelsen wrote about the novel that Ioanna Karystiani redeemed "what Thornton Wilder could not achieve in 1930 with his strangely placeless novel The Woman from Andros : She turns the Cycladic island into a place of literature".

For her second novel Koustoumi sto choma , which was published in 2003 under the title Shadow Wedding, she was awarded the Diavaso Literature Prize of the Athens Academy . Her third novel, which was published in German in 2009 with the title The Eyes of the Sea , is a modern version of the Odysseus saga with a new gender distribution of roles.

In 2013, the film adaptation of her novel Mikra Anglia, produced by Martin Scorsese , was released , for which she wrote the screenplay. Her husband Pantelis Voulgaris directed the film.

Works

Greek
  • "Με γκρι και γκρίζο" - "Gray in gray", Verlag Aiolos, Athens 1987
  • "Ένα σκίτσο στο τσεπάκι" - "A sketch in a pocket", Publishing House Αίολος, Athens 1980
  • "Η κυρία Κατάκη" - "Mrs. Kataki" - short stories, Kastaniotis publishing house, Athens 1995, ISBN 960-03-1345-8 .
  • "Μικρά Αγγλία", "Little England", novel, published by Καστανιώτης, Athens 1997, ISBN 960-03-1780-1
  • "Κουστούμι στο χώμα", Publishing House Καστανιώτης, Athens 2000, ISBN 960-03-2879-X
  • "Ο άγιος της μοναξιάς". Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2003, ISBN 960-03-3544-3
  • "Νύφες". Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2004, ISBN 960-03-3849-3
  • "Σουέλ". Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2006, ISBN 960-03-4311-X
  • "Τα σακιά". Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2010, ISBN 978-960-03-5185-9
  • "Καιρός σκεπτικός". Kastaniotis Edition, Athens 2011, ISBN 978-960-03-5404-1
  • "Το φαράγγι" - "The Gorge". Kastaniotis Edition, Athens 2015, ISBN 978-960-03-5938-1
Translations
  • The eyes of the sea. Translated by Michaela Prinzinger. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2009. ISBN 978-3-518-42104-8 .
  • Shadow wedding. Translated by Michaela Prinzinger. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2003. ISBN 3-518-45702-0 .
  • The women of Andros. Novel. Translated by Norbert home. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2001. ISBN 3-518-41229-9 .
  • L 'isola dei gelsomini. Translated into Italian by Maurizio de Rosa. Crocetti Editore. ISBN 88-8306-026-1
  • II vestito in terra. Translated into Italian by Maurizio de Rosa. Crocetti Editore.
  • La petite Angleterre. translated into French by Michel Volkovitch. Editions du Seuil. Paris 2002

Film portrait

  • The wives of the seafarers . With Ioanna Karystiani in Crete and Andros, a film by Vera Botterbusch , 45 min., Bayerischer Rundfunk, first broadcast in 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Spectator, April 20, 2013
  2. ^ Tilman Spreckelsen: Curse of the thin floorboards , FAZ, June 2, 2001
  3. ^ Ioanna Karystiani, website of the Greek Cultural Foundation
  4. ↑ Review notes on the German edition at Perlentaucher
  5. ^ A ship as a male village , book review by Ursula March, Deutschlandradio Kultur, November 30, 2009
  6. ↑ Die Frauen der Seefahrer , ARD program, July 1, 2012 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.ard.de

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personal data
SURNAME Karystiani, Ioanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Καρυστιάνη, Ιωάννα (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Chania , Crete