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Ioanna Karystiani was born in 1952 in Chania in Crete [1] in a family from Asia Minor. She took up Law Studies and worked as a cartoonist for several media, among them the Greek communist newspaper Rizospastis (Greek Ριζοσπάστης) and the magazines Tetarto, Ena and Eikones. She has also worked as a scriptwriter and made a name for ...
in Chania, Crete, Greece. September 08, 1952. edit data. Ioanna Karystiani (Greek: Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη) is a Greek screenwriter and winner of the Greek National Book Award. After studying Law, she initially made a name for herself as a cartoonist and screenplay writer. It was not until the 90s that she decided to publish prose.
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Ioanna Karystiani is a Greek writer whose first novels, written in Greek and translated into many languages with the exception of English, were widely praised. In Mikra Anglia she focuses on the individual lives of the sailors and fishermen on the Aegean island of Andros, and on their wives, who are continually faced with the loss of their men.
Jan 1, 2001 · Ioanna Karystiani (Greek: Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη) is a Greek screenwriter and winner of the Greek National Book Award. After studying Law, she initially made a name for herself as a cartoonist and screenplay writer. It was not until the 90s that she decided to publish prose.
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Ioanna Karystiani was born in Chania, Crete and now lives in Athens. She is the author of four novels and a book of short stories. She also wrote the screenplay for The Brides, directed by Pandelis Vulgaris and produced by Martin Scorsese, and for Estrella mi vida, directed by Costa Gavras
Jan 26, 2010 · Novelist and screenwriter Karystiani (The Jasmine Isle) won the 2007 National Book Award for best Greek novel with this book, centered around a secretly blind sea captain in his damned dotage, Mitsos Avgoustis. Karystiani celebrates Mitsos's epic 58-year devotion to the merchant shipping industry and the ship he helms, the Athos III, but also ...
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Ioanna Karystiani is the author of three novels, including The Jasmine Isle (Europa Editions 2006), a collection of short stories, and the screenplays for The Brides, directed by Pandelis Vulgaris and produced by Martin Scorsese, and Estrella mi vida, directed by Costa Gavras. She was awarded the Greek state prize and the Athenian Academy prize for her first novel, and the Diavaso literature prize for her second.
