Kallia Papadaki was born in Didymoteicho (1978)  and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied economics in the United States at Bard College and Brandeis University and film at Stavrakos’ Film School in Greece. Her short story collection The Back-Lot Sound (Polis Publishers, 2009), won the New Writers Award from the Greek literary journal Diavazo. In 2011, she was selected to participate in the Scritture Giovani with her short story Agis and Mary, at the Mantova, Hay and Berlin literary festivals. Her second book, Lavender in December (2011), was a poetry collection. Her third book, Dendrites (2015), is a novel that has been translated into several languages, received the Centre National du Livre (CNL), development grant in 2012, won the Young Author’s Award from the literary journal Clepsidra in 2016 and received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2017.

Both her short stories and poems have been published in international anthologies and literary journals. She works as a professional screenwriter. September, her first feature script won, in 2010, the International Balkan Fund script development award, received the Nipkow Scholarship in Berlin, and premiered at the 48th Karlovy Vary IFF (official competition). Forty days, currently in development, is her second.

Main Translations

Graffiti Palace, A.G Lombardo, Metaixmio Publications 2019

Professional awards (In Literature- if any)

New Writer’s Award, Literary Journal Diavazo, 2010

CNL Development Grant, 2012

Young Writer’s Award, Literary Journal Clepsydra, 2016

European Prize for Literature, 2017