Margarita Karapanou
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Margarita Karapanou | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 July 1946 Athens, Greece |
| Died | 2 December 2008 (aged 62) Athens, Greece |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Period | 1976–2008 |
Margarita Karapanou (Greek: Μαργαρίτα Καραπάνου; 19 July 1946 – 2 December 2008) was a Greek novelist, most known for her first novel, Kassandra and the Wolf.[1][2] Her novels have been translated into many languages.[3][4]
Margarita Karapanou was born in Athens, Greece, the daughter of novelist and dramatist Margarita Liberaki and Giorgos Karapanos, a lawyer and poet. Her parents divorced and her mother moved to Paris shortly after she was born.[2] Karapanou grew up in both Athens, with her maternal grandmother, and with her mother in Paris.[5][6] She studied philosophy and cinema in Paris, and nursery school teaching through distance education in London. In Paris, she was friends with Marie-France Ionesco, the daughter of Eugène Ionesco.[6]
Karapanou worked as a nursery school teacher and also at a private kindergarten.[7] She struggled with bipolar disorder throughout her life.[1][8]
Kassandra and the Wolf was translated into English by Nikos C. Germanacos and published by Harcourt Brace in 1976 before it was published in Greece.[8]
Her own translation into French of her 1985 novel The Sleepwalker won the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in 1988.
Her diaries, Η ζωή είναι αγρίως απίθανη: Ημερολόγια 1959-1979 (Life Is Wildly Improbable: Diaries 1959-1979), were published in November 2008, shortly before she died of respiratory problems on 2 December 2008.
Works
Novels
- Η Κασσάνδρα και ο Λύκος [Hē Kassandra kai ho lykos] (Hermēs, 1977). Kassandra and the Wolf, trans. Nikos C. Germanacos (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976; Clockroot, 2009).
- Ο υπνοβάτης [Ho hypnovatēs] (Hermēs, 1985). The Sleepwalker, trans. Karen Emmerich (Clockroot, 2011).
- Rien ne va plus (Hermēs, 1991). Trans. Karen Emmerich (Clockroot, 2009).
- Ναι [Nai] (Ōkeanida, 1999). Yes.
- Lee και Lou [Lee kai Lou] (Ōkeanida, 2003). Lee and Lou.
- Μαμά (Ōkeanida, 2004). Mama.
Other
- Μήπως; [Mēpōs?] (Ōkeanida, 2006). Maybe? Conversations with psychologist and writer Fotini Tsalikoglou.
- Η ζωή είναι αγρίως απίθανη [Ī zōī́ eínai agríōs apíthanī́] (Ōkeanida, 2008). Life Is Wildly Improbable: Diaries 1959-1979 (Edited by Vassilis Kimoulis)
In anthologies
- "The hour of the Wolf". In Rotter, P. (1975). Bitches & sad ladies: An anthology of fiction by and about women. New York: Harper's Magazine Press. ISBN 9780061275159
- "Word". in Biguenet, J. (1978). Foreign fictions: 25 contemporary stories from Canada, Europe, Latin America. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780394724935
- "Kassandra" and "The Wolf". In Manguel, A. (1993). The gates of paradise: The anthology of erotic short fiction. New York: C. Potter. ISBN 9780517880500
- "Kalymnos". In Leontis, A. (1997). Greece: A traveler's literary companion. San Francisco, Calif: Whereabouts Press. ISBN 9781883513047
- "Island Melancholy" (2008). Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida. University of North Carolina Press ISBN 9780807831830
