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Amanda Michalopoulou
Despite her penchant for the surreal her novels adress the arena of the heart

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Book tour in the United States for "I'd like" (By Dalkey Archive Press)

Mar.18.2008

Book tour in the United States for "I'd like" (By Dalkey Archive Press)

Readings in New York, Chicago and throughout the Northeast.
Yale University, 2008.4.21
Brown University, 2008.4.22
PEN World Voices Festival, New York
Columbia University, NY
Queens College, 2008.5.14
KGB Bar, NY
Chicago
Washington

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.2008

Giati skotosa tin kalyteri mou fili (Why did I kill my best friend)

In this best-selling novel Michalopoulou explores friendship, as a political system with its totalitarianism and its democracy. She examines the, bond-powerful to the point of being self destructive, friendship between two childhood friends, Anna and Maria. The two heroines go to primary school together during the 70s after they were obliged to leave a happy life (Maria in post-...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.2008

Paliokairos (Foul Weather)

The story is set on a remote greek island during summer. The heroes, both locals and incomers, have few outlets for entertainment apart from each other’s company and are further isolated when a violent storm cuts them off from the mainland. Michalopoulou puts her characters into an emotional pressure cooker. Some crach, some run away. In the center of it all, the young narrator,...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.16.2008

I'd like

The thirteen short stories that make up Amanda Michalopoulou’s I’d Likeread like versions of an unwritten novel: each riveting tale resonates with the others, and yet a sense of their connectedness remains tantalizingly out of grasp. I’d Like offers a touching, utterly unique reading experience from one of Greece’s most innovative young storytellers.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.1998

Oses fores antexeis (As many times as you can bear it)

The unnamed heroine, an introverted public servant who has just lost her job, shares a brief idyll with Ivo, a Tzech travel agent who resembles Kafka. After meeting him in an athenian pub she pursues him across Europe, communicating in a kind of Euro-creole or extempore Esperanto with the people she meets on the way. Her journey takes her deeper into a world of Kafka echoes and...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.1996

Yantes

A book in a form of a literary game. In Greece it met with substansial sucess (16 printings), and it can be considered as part of a tradition of novels about food as a metaphor for deprivation and saturation, such as Iris Murdoch’s «The Sea, The Sea» or Nora Ephron’s «Heartburn». The novel follows three generations of a family where the main passion is cooking. Everybody is...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.1994

Life is colourful outside

Five stories, five young narrators who face an important dilemma in their life and resolve it through narration. The story that gave the title to this book was awarded the Best Short Story Prize by the literary magazine «Revmata». A story from this collection (The Way you might break a finger) can be read at www.wordswithoutborders.org

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.1994

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Mar.28.2008 - 10:21 am

Room 11

This is my sanatorium for the spirit. Room 11, at Wannsee, a residence for writers in the outskirts of Berlin. It is called Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (www.lcb.de) and it...

Mar.27.2008 - 1:27 pm

International English

It was about time for me to try and write something in International English. I am Greek and I only write in Greek but I thought, long ago, about writing a novel called "...

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Mar.29.2008 - 7:43 am

In response to: Pre-Publication Anxiety

How it feels

Hi Andrew, I know how it feels. We all know, in fact. I guess the wiser thing is to try to be yourself and not be...

Mar.28.2008 - 2:09 pm

In response to: Room 11

It's great to be here

Thanks Belle. It's a great joy and inspiration to be among you. Oh, and I love your illustrations...

Mar.28.2008 - 7:18 am

In response to: International English

Plural Identities

Thanks for the encouragement, rg. Plural Identities" is great, thanks for that link too. I particurarly liked...

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I'd like

Published by Threepercent

A master of metafictional writing reminiscent of the French nouveau roman writers of the ’50s and in particular Marguerite Duras, Greece’s Amanda Michalopoulou invites us to view...

About Amanda

Amanda Michalopoulou was born in Athens, in 1966, and she has studied French Literature in Athens and Journalism in Paris. She has published five novels,two short story collections, a collection of e-mail correspondence and many children books. She has...

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Causes Amanda Michalopoulou Supports

WWF, Amnesty International, To Hamogelo tou Paidiou (greek nonprofit organisation for children)

Amanda MichalopoulouDespite her penchant for the surreal her novels adress the arena of the heart

Latest News & Events

Book tour in the United States for "I'd like" (By Dalkey Archive Press)

Featured Works

Amanda's Latest Blogs

Comments from Amanda

Published Reviews

About Amanda

Causes Amanda Michalopoulou Supports

Amanda Michalopoulou
Despite her penchant for the surreal her novels adress the arena of the heart