Eleni Anastasopoulou
If we “come from our childhood”, like A. S. Exupéry says, then she comes from stories of women on doorsteps, from games on slopes and in backlots, from bloody elbows and knees, from the grandfather’s and the grandmother’s fairy tales, from lakes with dragons and forests with fairies, from eras that let her believe that dragons can be defeated.
Ever since she realized that a way to tame them “dragons” is writing, she writes! She writes fairy tales with truths for children, truths with fairy tales for adults, comforting stories about what scares her, about what troubles her, about what she loves. She writes because she can’t do otherwise and she navigates herself searching, since “only children know what they are searching for”.
This is how “Killed Water”,short stories and “Dyssakos”,novel (from Gavrielidespublications), “Haikou”, for adults and “Akata makata sukutou, it is ready the haiku”for children (from Thraka publications), “Erasmia’s and Herald’s secret”, “Babayoum and the candies”, “Sandalaki”, “A gift for thegrandfather” (short listed for the Greek Children’s Book Circle awards), “Kika and Rika” (from Diaplous publications), “Celebration every day, one World Day” (collective GLS),”The Emigrant Dog” from Komninos publications),emerged.
Her texts wandering around as strays, in printed and electronic literary magazines, in collective publications, and sometimes she writes about current issues in local and nationwide media.