Ersi Sotiropoulos, who was born in Patra and now lives in Athens, is the author of ten works of fiction and a book of poetry. Read More Her novel Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees (Peter Green's English translation of which was published in 2005 by Interlink Books) was the first novel ever to win both the Greek national prize for literature and Greece's preeminent book critics' award. Sotiropoulos has been a fellow at institutes and universities around the world, including the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany, and Princeton University.