Ioanna Karystiani (Greek. Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη; (born 8 September 1952 in

Chania Chania ( el, Χανιά ; vec, La Canea), also spelled Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno and west of Heraklion. The muni ...

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) is a Greek

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and winner of the Greek National Book Award.

Biography

Ioanna Karystiani was born in 1952 in Chania in Crete in a family from

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. She took up Law Studies and worked as a

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for several media, among them the Greek communist newspaper ''

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'' (Greek Ριζοσπάστης) and the magazines '' Tetarto'', ''

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'' and '' Eikones''. She has also worked as a scriptwriter and made a name for herself among the Greek film industry. She lives in Athens and in the Greek island of

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and is married to the Greek film director

Pantelis Voulgaris Pantelis Voulgaris ( el, Παντελής Βούλγαρης; born 23 October 1940) is a Greek film director and screenwriter. His first feature film ''To proxenio tis Annas'' in 1972 won the first prize in Thessaloniki International Film Festiv ...

. They have two children. They have worked together in films such as '' Nyfes'', '' Psyhi Vathia'' and '' To Teleftaio Simeioma''. Ioanna Karystiani has had success with her short stories book ''I kyria Kataki'' (''Mrs Kataki'') and her novel ''Mikra Anglia'' (''Little England'', published in English as ''The Jasmine Island'') in which she describes the romances, lives and work of a family in the sailor community of the island of Andros in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel achieved the Greek National Award for Literature and was also made into the 2013 film '' Little England''.

References

*http://d-nb.info/gnd/122927664 *http://www.europaeditions.com/author.php?Id=15 *http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_316.html

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karystiani, Ioanna 1952 births Greek screenwriters Greek women writers Living people Women screenwriters