Ersi Sotiropoulos

Ersi Sotiropoulos is a novelist, poet, and short story writer, a recipient of several literary awards in Greece and abroad, including the 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 spring 2022, she was appointed the Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College in New York.

Ersi has been involved in many other artistic projects and has experimented with various mediums, particularly in the field of visual and concrete poetry. She has also written scripts for film and television. Her works have been translated into numerous languages and presented at festivals worldwide.

She has served as cultural attaché at the Greek Embassy in Rome and has been a fellow at Princeton University, the Shanghai Writing Program, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Arctic Circle, and the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, among others.

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