Sofka Zinovieff

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Sofka Zinovieff (born November 10, 1961 in London ) is a British journalist and author.

Life

Sofka Zinovieff's paternal grandparents emigrated from Russia after 1917. She grew up in London, her father Peter Zinovieff supplied the London music scene with new types of electronic instruments and founded Electronic Music Studios . She studied social anthropology at Cambridge University , where she received her PhD in 1989. She is married and lives with her husband and children in Greece.

Zinovieff writes articles for the English quality press and literary reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) . She has published three novels in which she draws on her family histories. In 2007 she published the biography of her grandmother, Communist Princess Sofka Skipwith .

Works (selection)

  • Athens, Paradise Street . From the English by Eva Bonné . Munich: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2013 ( The house on Paradise Street , 2012)
  • The red princess . From the English by Aurelia Batlogg. Vienna: Deuticke, 2008 ( Red Princess. The Revolutionary Life, Love Affairs, and Adventures of Princess Sophy , 2007, 2009)
  • Eurydice Street: a place in Athens . London: Granta Books, 2004
  • The history of emigration from Greece . Brochure as reading for young people (32 pages). New York: Franklin Watts, 1997
  • Dealing in identities: insiders and outsiders in a Greek town . Diss. Univ. Cambridge 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical information see Sofka Zinovieff , website
  2. ^ Sofka Zinovieff: Princess of the revolution , The Telegraph , February 3, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Zinovieff, Sofka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH London