Zyranna Zateli

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.

Zyranna Zateli Ζυράννα Ζατέλη
Born	1951 Sochos, Greece
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Greek
Period	1984–

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)