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Ioanna Karystiani


Born
in Chania, Crete, Greece
September 08, 1952


Ioanna Karystiani (Greek: Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη) is a Greek screenwriter and winner of the Greek National Book Award.

After studying Law, she initially made a name for herself as a cartoonist and screenplay writer. It was not until the 90s that she decided to publish prose. She has also worked as a scriptwriter and made a name for herself among the Greek film industry.

She lives in Athens and in the Greek island of Andros and is married to the Greek film director Pantelis Voulgaris. They have two children. They have worked together in films such as Nyfes and Psyhi Vathia.

Ioanna Karystiani has had success with her short stories book "I kyria Kataki" (Mrs Kataki) and her novel "Mikra Anglia" (Little England, published in English as "The Jasmine Isl
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Average rating: 3.76 · 3,765 ratings · 336 reviews · 12 distinct worksSimilar authors
Μικρά Αγγλία

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3.93 avg rating — 1,578 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions
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Τα σακιά

3.91 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Σουέλ

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3.76 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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Κουστούμι στο χώμα

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3.71 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Ο άγιος της μοναξιάς

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3.27 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Το φαράγγι

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3.39 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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Χίλιες ανάσες

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3.44 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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Νύφες

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3.94 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2004
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Καιρός σκεπτικός

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3.61 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2011
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Ψιλά γράμματα

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3.15 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2022
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“brown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest.”
Ioanna Karystiani, The Jasmine Isle

“[T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.”
Ioanna Karystiani, The Jasmine Isle

“Στρωτή θα είναι η ζωή όσων το πρωί ανοίγουν το παράθυρο κι έχουν την πολυτέλεια της διάθεσης να κοιτούν τον ουρανό ως πέρα και το βράδυ ανάβουν το φως και νιώθουν ωραία που γύρισαν σπίτι. Στρωτή ζωή θα έχουν οι άνθρωποι που αγοράζουν με προσμονή το φρέσκο ψωμί, που βάζουν λουλούδια στο τραπέζι, που χαίρονται ένα καλό κούρεμα, που ξεροτηγανίζουν με ταλέντο δυο αβγά μάτια, που φιλούν και φιλιούνται κάπως συχνά, που ρίχνουν ή τρώνε κανένα χαστουκάκι χωρίς να το παίρνουν βαριά, που σπάνε το πόδι τους και οι φίλοι έρχονται να γράψουν στο γύψο σαχλαμαρίτσες, που ψηφίζουν εξάπαντος, που ξέρουν τα λόγια των ρεφρέν της Μαρινέλλας, που ονειρεύονται ένα εξωτικό ταξίδι και μαζεύουν τα λεφτά σιγά σιγά, που παίζουν κάθε μέρα με τη γάτα τους και βγάζουν ένα ένα τα τσιμπούρια απ' το σκυλί τους, που καμαρώνουν τους αρραβώνες των παιδιών τους, που πάνε τα εγγόνια τους σε μπαλ μασκέ, που συνεφέρνουν το ετοιμόρροπο πατρικό στην επαρχία,που κηδεύουν το γονιό τους με τιμές.”
Ioanna Karystiani, Τα σακιά

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