AVEROFF TATIANA


AVEROFF TATIANA

Studied Philosophy and Psychology at Deree College, Athens (BA) before taking a degree in Social Psychology (MSc) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Worked in the private education sector as an educational psychologist, 1978-1994, writing two books on cooperative learning during the same period.

Between 2007 and 2011, she taught The Novel in the Greek Book Centre's creative writing workshops.

From 2011 to this day she continues to teach Creative Writing in collaboration with various institutions and privately.

She is the Director of the Averoff Museum of Modern Greek Art in Metsovo, part of the Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza Foundation, a public service institution over which she has presided as chairwoman since its foundation in 1988.

 More about author: 
First name:  Tatiana
Last name:  Averoff
Projects: 

ΤΟ ΞΕΦΩΤΟ (The Clearing)
Kedros Publications 2000, ISBN 960-04-1787-3  /  Metaichmio Publications - Pocket Edition 2015, ISBN: 978-960-566-961-4  /  Metaichmio Publications - Modern Greek Library Series 2021, ISBN: 978-618-03-2690-1
   Winner of the Greek Christian Literature Society Fiction Award 2001
   Short-listed for Diavazo Literary Magazine First Novel Award 2001

ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΣ (August))
Kedros Publications 2002, ISBN 960-04-2187-0
   Short-listed for Diavazo Literary Magazine Fiction Award 2003

ΑΝΟΙΧΤΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΗ  (Intersections)
Kedros Publications 2005, ISBN 960-04-2894-8

ΘΡΑΣΟΣ  (Thrasos)
Kedros Publications 2009, ΙSBN 978-960-04-385-12
   Short listed for the National Award for Children's Literature 2010 (although it is primarily a book for adults).

ΔΕΚΑ ΖΩΕΣ ΣΕ ΜΙΑ  (Ten Lives In One)
Metaichmio Publications 2014, ΙSBN: 978-960-566-862-4  
ENGLISH TITLE:
AVEROFF: PORTRAIT OF THE POLITICIAN AS A YOUNG MAN
Published by Peter Lang LTD, 2018, translation by Patricia Felisa Barbeito, ΙSBN: 978-1-78874-122-4  
    
ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟ (Murder in Paradise)
Metaichmio Publications 2017, ISBN 978-618-03-1206-5
   Short listed for the Athens Prize of Literature DEKATA 2018.


SHORT STORIES and other texts of hers have been published in collective volumes and literary supplements in newspapers and magazines.


EDUCATION - PSYCHOLOGY:

ΜΑΘΑΙΝΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΝΑ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΖΟΝΤΑΙ  (Teaching Children to Work Together)
Thymari Publications, 1983 (4th edition 1994),  223 pages, ISBN: 960-7161-22-X

ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΜΑΘΗΣΗ   (Cooperative Learning)
Thymari & Kostea-Gitonas Publications 1990, 260 pages, ISBN 960-7161-37-8


TRANSLATIONS:

Greek translation of Stratis Haviaras’ novel “The Heroic Age”:  
ΤΑ ΗΡΩΙΚΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ, Published by Kastaniotis Editions 1999, Translated by Tatiana Averoff, 435 pages, ISBN 960-03-2460-3


Date of birth:  1954
Birth place:  Athens
Abstract title:  August
E-mail:  tatioannou@yahoo.com
Website:  https://tatiana-averoff.gr