Amanda Michalopoulou | Red Room Writer Profile

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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.
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Room 11
March 28, 2008
- 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 provides the kind of deep silence that you need when you havn't written anything for a long time and you want to be sure that you are able to write again. I came here with a crime story I was dragging around for months and ...
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International English
March 27, 2008
- 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 "International English" where the hero would speak my English and try to make sense of the world and communicate through a fake language, made up of advertisement and songs and the English you read in metro stations, in ...
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