Ersi Sotiropoulos

is a novelist, poet and short story writer, a recipient of several literary awards in Greece and abroad, including the Hellenic National Literature Prize (twice), the Book Critics’ Award, and the Athens Academy Prize. She has also received the Dante Alighieri Prize for her poetry in Italy. Her novel What’s Left of the Night won the Mediterranean Prize for Best Foreign Novel in France. In addition to her fiction and poetry, Ersi has experimented with various artistic mediums in particular working in the field of visual and concrete poetry. She has written scripts for film and television and has been a fellow at Princeton University, at the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil, at the Arctic Circle Program and the Columbia Institute, among others. She served for nine years as cultural attaché at the Greek Embassy in Rome. Her works have been translated into numerous languages. She lives in Athens, Greece.