Ersi Sotiropoulos （Greece）
Ersi Sotiropoulos is the author of fifteen books of fiction and poetry. Her work has been translated into many languages, and has been awarded in Greece with the National Book Prize twice, the Book Critics’ Award and the Athens Academy Prize, and has been shortlisted for the European Book Prize. She has written scripts for film and television and participated in exhibitions of Visual Poetry. She served for nine years as the cultural attaché for the Greek Embassy in Rome and has been a fellow at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, Princeton University, Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany, Villa Yourcenar in France and others. Her novel What’s Left of the Night won the Prix Méditerranée Étranger 2017 in France.