SOTIROPOULOU, ERSI
Ersi Sotiropoulos is a poet and novelist who lives in Athens. She studied Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Florence and served as the cultural attaché for the Greek Embassy in Rome. Her work has received many awards and has been widely translated. In addition to her fiction and poetry, she worked on several artistic projects as well, participating in exhibitions of visual poetry and artist's books, and has written scripts for film and television.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, New York, Spring 2022
E-learning lessons on What’s Left of the Night and on Literary Criticism, University of
Athens, 2018-2019
Board of Directors, Greek National Library, 2010-2011
Columnist, Eleftherotypia newspaper, Greece, 1998-2000
Head of Press Office, Greek Film Centre, Athens, 1994-1996
Cultural Attaché, Greek Embassy, Rome 1983-1991
OTHER PROJECTS (selected)
“The Sea is Always Far Away”, Visual Poetry exhibition, Athens 2022
Film script for H24, ARTE, 2021
Research and script for Mythical Cinemas/Cine Thission of Athens, docufiction film,
Canal+, France 2016
Curated the exhibition “Scarecrows in the Vineyard”, Santorini, Greece, 2016
“Carte Blanche to Ersi Sotiropoulos”, MuCEM museum, Marseille European Capital of
Culture, 2013
Plato in New York, Visual Poetry exhibition and a play, The Gershwin Hotel, New York,
2012
This is a poem, Visual Poetry exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 2012
Curated the Greek participation in “Regions of Europe”, Venice, Italy 1986
Curated the exhibition “Cavafy, a Greek Poet of Alexandria”, Palazzo Venezia, Rome
1984
FELLOWSHIPS
Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Fellow, 2021-2022
Emily Harvey Foundation, Fellow, Italy, 2019 & 2015
Shanghai Writers’ Association, Fellow, China, 2018
Yaddo Fellow, 2017
Arctic Circle Project, Fellow, 2016
Sacatar Foundation Fellow, Brazil, 2014 & 2006
Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities, Fellow, 2012 &
2009
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Fellow, 2011
Villa Marguerite Yourcenar, Laureate, France, 2010
Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Director’s Guest, Italy, 2009
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Fellow, Germany, 2004
Chinese Writers’ Association, Fellowship, China, 2001
Princeton University, Department of Hellenic Studies, Fellowship, 1995-1996
USIS, International Visitor Program, 1993
University of Iowa, International Writing Program, Fellowship,1981
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