Soti Triantafillou
Soti Triantafillou (* 1957 in Athens ) is a Greek author, lecturer, translator, editor and journalist.
Life
After studying pharmacology at the University of Athens , Triantafillou moved to Paris in 1979, where she completed her doctorate in history and cultural history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She then lived in New York, studied urban studies at the University of New York and did another PhD. She also taught American history at a high school in the Bronx . She then returned to Athens and completed a degree in Romance languages at the University of Athens. Triantafillou dealt intensively with film history, published six monographs on cinema and worked as a lecturer in film history. She works as a translator for English, French, German and Italian. She has translated works by great authors, including Henry James , DH Lawrence , Virginia Woolf , John Updike , Jean-Luc Godard , Max Frisch and Cesare Pavese .
Triantafillou wrote seven novels, three books of short stories and three short stories. She has also written essays on films and politics. Triantafillou is now considered a cosmopolitan cult author in her homeland and embodies the type of writer of the self-deprecating urban neurotic. She wrote her first novel "Saturday Night on the Outskirts" about Greek students in New York. It achieved cult status and was hailed as the most important Greek novel of its generation. Three of her novels are set in the USA, one of them - “Poor Margo” - she wrote in English. Triantafillou achieved particular popularity with her novel "The Underground Heaven", published in 2001, in which she mythized America rather than Greece. The main character, the outsider Billy 'Dudes Morrow, is a second generation Greek in the United States. He falls in love with an outsider, a foreigner from Italy, with whom he drives to maturity on the legendary Route 66 , commits a murder and thus becomes an outsider. Triantafillou's fourth novel “The Pencil Factory”, also a bestseller, tells the saga of three generations in an upper-class family whose members struggled through life in 19th century Alexandria in the Belgian colonies of Africa, in Zurich and Saint Petersburg. When the heirs finally come to Athens to set up an existence based on the model of the German industrialist Faber-Castell , the pre-war Greek reality destroys all illusions. The novel has been translated into German, Spanish and Turkish.
Triantafillou also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. She lives in Athens, Paris and New York.
Works in German
- The underground sky. Zsolnay, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-552-05175-9 .
- The pencil factory. Zsolnay, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05320-4 .
- The mark of the hunter. Detective novel, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-46144-0 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Life and works of Soti Triantafillou
- Soti Triantafillou at transcript-review.org
- Soti Triantafillou on the homepage of the Berlin International Literature Festival
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Triantafillou, Soti |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Triantafillou, Sotiria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek author, lecturer, translator, editor and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |