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Soti (full name Sotiria) Triantafyllou or Triantafillou (Greek: Σωτη (Σωτηρία) Τριανταφύλλου) is a Greek writer, historian and journalist, member of the modern generation of Greek writers, born in Athens (1957) and based in Athens and Paris.

Life

Soti Triantafillou finished English-Hellenic Elementary School and graduated from French-Hellenic High School cum laude as special talent. Her further education includes: Diplôme d’Etudes de Lettres et Civilisation Françaises, Université de Nice, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nice, France (1979), Bachelor of Science; Faculty of Pharmacology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1980), Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (Master of Arts), Faculty of History and Civilizations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (with professor Marc Ferro), Paris, France (1981), PhD, American History and Civilization, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (thesis on “The Image of the U.S. Through the Hollywood Comedy 1946-1960” with Professor Marc Ferro), Paris, France (1984), PhD, History of American Cities, NYU (Thesis “Los Angeles, California and Athens, Greece: Urban Patterns”) (1989) Soti Triantafillou speaks five languages (English, Greek, French, Italian, German). She worked as professor of History and Film Studies at the Hellenic Film School, (1985-2000) and she has been a visiting lecturer at the Aegean University, Faculty of Geography/ Faculty of History/ Faculty of Urbanism, Mytilene, Greece (20040-2007). Her academic work includes the project “The Image of Los Angeles in the Movies” (with Professor Jean Heffer) for the Centre d’Etudes Nord-Américaines, Paris, France (1984-1985). Also, she is a journalist for the weekly Athens Voice and Eleftheros Typos. She comments on international and American affairs, luralism, and multi-culturalism, State theory, urban planning.

Bibliography
Fiction

Tangerine Days, (very short stories) Egokeros, 1989
The El at Stillwell, (very short stories) Delfini, 1992
Alphabet City, (very short stories) Delfini, 1993
Saturday Night at the Edge of the Town, (novel) Polis Publishers, 1996
Tomorrow Another Country, (YA novel) Polis, 1997
The Subterranean Sky, (novel) Polis, 1998 (translated into German, Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna, 2001)
Marion on the Silver Islands and the Red Forests (book for children), Patakis Publishers, 1999
The Pencil Factory, (novel) Patakis, 2000 (translated into German, Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna, 2004; translated into Catalan, Edicions de 1984, Barcelona, 2005; translated into Turkish, Çağdaş Edebiyat Dizisi, Istanbul, 2009)
Poor Margo (novel), Patakis, 2001
Albatross, (novel), Patakis, 2002
Forgiveness (novella), Patakis, 2003
Letter from Alaska (novelette), 2003
Taking off (novella), Melani Publishers, 2004
Death at Dawn (novella), Ianos Publishers, 2004
Stories of Despair (very short stories), Athens Voice Books, 2005
Letter from a Dragon (book for children), Patakis, 2005
Body Stories (very short stories), Athens Voice Books, 2006
Los Angeles (short stories with photos by Petros Nikoltsos), Melani, 2006
Pittsburgh (an epistolary novelette), Aigeias Publishers, 2006
Chinese Boxes (Four Seasons for Detective Malone), Patakis, 2006 (translated into German, Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna, 2009, translated into Italian, Voland, 2012)
Some of Your Blood, Patakis, 2008
African Diary (YA novel), Patakis, 2008
Time, Again (autobiography), Patakis, 2009
For the Love of Geometry, Patakis 2011
Milena and the Awful Fish, (book for young children), Patakis 2011
The Terrible Twist of Events, Athens Voice, 2012 (articles)

Essays

Filmed Cities, Synchroni Epochi Publishers, 1989
On Four Cinematic Landmarks of the Sixties, Delfini Publishers, 1994
Buildings in the Sixties, Delfini, 1994
«Left» Τerrorism, Democracy and the State, Patakis Publishers, 2003
On Nationalism and its Symbols, Melani, 2006

Short Stories in Anthologies [selective bibliography]

Cumin and Cinnamon (short story “A Restaurant Named ‘Le ventre de Paris’”), Patakis, 1999 (translated into Czech, Apsida Books, Prague, 2001)
Athens, Itineraries and Stops (short story: “How the Reginos Family Lost their Honor”), Patakis, 2000
Fables from the Future (short story “Bad Blood”), Minoas Publishers, 2001
Ten Summer Stories (short story “I’ll Jump Out the Window”), Vogue, 2001
Five Artists in Search of an Author (short story “The Wall”), Patakis, 2003
True Stories (short story: “Athenian Romance, An Almost True Story”), Metechmio Publishers, 2002 (translated into German, Deutscher Tachenbuch Verlag, München, 2002)
Four Stories from the City, (“Baby’s Engagement”), Athens Voice Books, 2005 (translated into Swedish: Bokförlaget Tranan, Stockholm, 2007)
Modern Greece Under Foreign Eyes (short story: “Adom in Athens: an Egyptian Cabbie in the City”), Dendron Review, 2008
We Call this Night Fire: Stories from the Inner City (short story: “Come on Running”), Athens Voice, 2009
Stories from the Subway (short story: “Vocals”), Athens Voice Books, 2009
This Age of Ours (short story “The Cabriolet Chronicles”), Kastaniotis Publishers, 2010
Greek Crimes (short story “The Cconcierge of the Rue Lepic”), Kastaniotis Publishers, 2011

Translations [selective bibliography]

James Henry, The Altar of the Dead, Egokeros, 1990
Lawrence D. H., The Trespasser, Sychroni Epochi, 1990
Woolf Virginia, The Years, Sychroni Epochi, 1991
Jolie Robert, La ville et la civilisation urbaine, Sychroni Epochi, 1991
Ballard J. G., Crash, Apopeira Publishers, 1992 (with Icaros Babassakis)
Macchiavelli Nicolò, La vita di Castruccio Castracani, Gavriilides Publishers, 1993
Bellmer Hans, L’ anatomie de l’image, Gavriilides, 1993
Updike John, Memories from the Ford Administration, Patakis, 1994
Roth Philip, Goodbye Columbus, Polis, 1996
Handke Peter, Die Frau Linkshändinge Frau [from German], Melani, 1999
Pavese Cesare, Il bel estate [from Italian], Patakis, 2000
Frisch Max, Homo Faber, [from German], Patakis, 2000
Frisch Max, Montauk, [from German], Melani, 2001
Sciascia Leonardo, Il caso Moro [from Italian], Patakis, 2002
Bukowski Charles, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems, Electra Publishers, 2004
Bukowski Charles, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain, Electra, 2005
Saviano Roberto, Il contrario della morte [from Italian], Patakis, 2009
Nizon Paul, Das Jahr des Lebens, [from German], Patakis, 2010
Richard Precht, Wen bin ich und wenn ja, wie veile? [from German], Patakis, 2011
Jürgen Habermas, Zur Verfassung Europas, Patakis, 2012
Edgar Morin, Stéphane Hessel, Le chemin de l’espoir, Patakis, 2012
Hubert Reeves, L’univers explique a mes petits-enfants, Patakis, 2012

Articles [selective bibliography]

“New Towns, Satellite Towns and the Urban Utopias of the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier”, Delfini, 1994
“Anti-Americanism in Greece: a Pathology”, Université de Provence, 2000

Conferences

Urban Decay: The Case of Detroit, Aegean University, Department of Geography, March 2005
U.S. Foreign Policies and the European Paranoia, Panteion University [13], Department of History, Athens, April 2005
Introduction to the Global City: Wang-Kar-Wai’s «Chunkging Express» and the Image of the Global City, Aegean University, Department of Geography, March 2006
White Flight in Greater Athens, Aegean University, Department of Geography, April 2006
Visionary Environments in the U.S., Aegean University, Department of Geography, May 2006
Los Angeles-Athens: Urban Patterns, Aegean University, Department of Geography, March 2007
Los Angeles Plays Itself, Aegean University, Department of Geography, Department of Sociology, April 2007
Language and Ideology; Class struggles, Terror and Misery of the Greek Language, Athens University, Department of Greek Literature, January 2008
American Culture in Greece and Variations of Anti-Americanism, The Hellenic Association of American Studies, Athens, November 2008
The Greek Civil War and How the Defeated Wrote the Official History of Modern Greece, Panteion University, Department of History, Athens, December 2009
Athens, a Mediterranean Capital: New Urbanism and the Future of Athens, Aegean University, Department of Geography, March 2010
Dingbat buildings in Athens and Southern California, Aegean University, Department of Urban Studies, April 2010

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