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Anna Papastavrou was born in Amorgos, Greece. She translates professionally from Italian, English and French, mainly and (almost exclusively now) literature. She is also involved in the adaptation of classics for children as well as the poetic adaptation of classics. She has translated works of Umberto Eco, Cesare Pavese, Alessandro Baricco, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Terry Pratchett, Jeffrey Eugenides. In 2009 she was awarded the Greek State Prize for Literary Translation of Foreign Literature into Greek Language for the book Questa Storia by Alessandro Baricco (published in Greek by Pataki Publishers, Ιστορία σαν παραμύθι).
Selected translations
Eco, Umberto (1997). Πέντε ηθικά κείμενα [Cinque scritti morali]. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.
Twain, Mark (2001). Οι περιπέτειες του Τομ Σόγερ [Tom Sawyer]. Athens: Papadopoulos.
Eugenides, Jeffrey (2003). Middlesex. Ανάμεσα στα δύο φύλα: Μυθιστόρημα [Middlesex]. Athens: Libro.
Pavese, Cesare (2005). Το φεγγάρι και οι φωτιές [La luna e i falò]. Athens: Metaichmio.
Pratchett, Terry (2005). Οι στρίγκλες [Wyrd Sisters]. Athens: Psichogios.
Canobbio, Andrea (2006). Ο κήπος των Ρενάλ [Il naturale disordine delle cose]. Athens: Psichogios.
Hemingway, Ernest (2006). Για ποιον χτυπά η καμπάνα [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. Athens: Kastanioti.
Piperno, Alessandro (2007). Με τις χειρότερες προθέσεις [Con le peggiori intenzioni]. Athens: Pataki.
Baricco, Alessandro (2008). Ιστορία σαν παραμύθι [Questa storia]. Athens: Pataki.
De Luca, Erri (2015). Το βάρος της πεταλούδας [Il peso della farfalla]. Athens: Kelefthos.
Magris, Claudio (2017). Υπόθεση αρχείου [Non luogo a procedere]. Athens: Kastanioti.
Joyce, James (2020). Επικίνδυνη γραφή. Σκέψεις για τη ζωή, την τέχνη, τη λογοτεχνία [Scrivere pericolosamente: Riflessioni su vita, arte, letteratura]. Athens: Pataki.
Prizes
Award for Literary Translation from Italian into Greek of EKEMEL 2007
Greek State Prize for Literary Translation 2009
Interview: Fotini Patinari and Linda Chyti
Date and place: May 2018, Thessaloniki
Reference: Wiedenmayer, Anthi, Lamprou, Despina and Patinari, Fotini (2021). “Interview with Anna Papastavrou", Translators’ PortraitsThessaloniki: School of German Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.