希腊小说家Ersi Sotiropoulos 做客贝尔法斯特女王大学
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Queen’s will welcome the celebrated Greek novelist and author of prize-winning novel Zig-zag through the bitter-orange trees, Ersi Sotiropoulos, to read at the opening of its Lagan Muses programme at the Institute of Byzantine Studies, on 24 September at 5pm.

Acclaimed as "the best novel of the decade" Zig-zag through the bitter-orange trees was published in Greece in 2000, and became the first novel to win both the Greek State Prize for Literature and the prestigious Book Critics' Award. Known for her consistent originality and subversion of convention, this is Sotiropoulos’s fifth novel.

Soitropoulos’s visit is organised in association with the Hellenic Foundation for Culture as part of its Greece in Britain series of events project. She will talk about her work, her book Zig-zag through the bitter-orange trees, and the translation of this moving and evocative novel. She will also meet her audience and sign copies of the book after her talk, at the Institute of Byzantine Studies, GO1-2, 5 University Square.

Zig-zag through the bitter-orange trees is translated into English by translator, novelist, biographer and historian Professor of Classics, Peter Green, a Dougherty Centennial Professor emeritus of classics at the University of Texas-Austin and Professor at the University of Iowa. With considerable input by Sotiropoulos herself, the resulting translation is both vigorous and colloquial, reflecting the original ‘highly idiomatic Greek’.

The book explores the lives of four people in Athens just before the millennium. Four unforgettable voices intertwine to tell a story of both relationship and isolation; with dark humour and a disarming power. Sotiropoulos portrays the world of the young hopeful and apathetic, beautiful and grotesque.

For media enquiries please contact: Roisin Duffy, Press & PR Unit, on +44 (0) 28 9097 5391, roisin.duffy@qub.ac.uk Out of hours pager: 07699 785 209.

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