Zyranna Zateli

Zyranna Zateli Ζυράννα Ζατέλη
Born	1951 (age 73–74) Sochos, Greece
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Greek
Period	1984–present
Notable awards	National Book Prize for Literature (1994, 2002)

Zyranna Zateli (Greek: Ζυράννα Ζατέλη) (born 1951) is a Greek novelist born in Sochos near Thessaloniki. She attended a drama school 1976–1979 and then worked as an actress and radio producer, before becoming a full-time writer.

Awards

Both her novels were awarded with the National Book Prize for Literature 1994 and 2002 and they are translated into several European languages.[1]

Selected works

Novels

• Και με το φως του λύκου επανέρχονται (With the light of the Wolf, they return), 1993
• Με το παράξενο όνομα Ραμάνθις Ερέβους, Ο θάνατος ήρθε τελευταίος (Under the strange name of Ramanthis Erevous: Death came Last), 2001
• Με το παράξενο όνομα Ραμάνθις Ερέβους, Το πάθος χιλιάδες φορές (Under the strange name of Ramanthis Erevous: Passion thousands of times), 2009

Short fiction

• Περσινή αρραβωνιαστικιά (Last year's fiancée), 1984
• Στην ερημιά με χάρι (Graceful in the wilderness), 1986

Non-fiction

• O δικός της αέρας (Her Own Wind), 2005
• Οι μαγικές βέργες του αδελφού μου, 2006

References

1. Hellenic Authors' Society - Zyranna Zateli Archived December 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Her entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)
• Her page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek) and (English)