Sofka Zinovieff

Sofka Zinovieff ( born November 10, 1961 in London) is a British journalist and author.

Life

Sofka Zinovieffs paternal grandparents emigrated from Russia after 1917. She grew up in London, her father Peter Zinovieff supplied the London music scene with new electronic instruments and founded the Electronic Music Studios. She studied social anthropology at Cambridge University, where she received her doctorate in 1989. She is married and lives with her ​​husband and children in Greece.

Zinovieff a contributing writer for the British quality press and literature reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). She has published three novels, in which she draws from her family stories. In 2007 she published a biography of her grandmother, the communist Princess Sofka Skipwith.

Works

• Athens, Paradise Road. From the English by Eva Bonné. Munich: Dt. Paperback -Verl., 2013 ( The house on Paradise Street, 2012)
• The red princess. From the English by Aurelia Batlogg. Vienna: Deuticke, 2008 (. Red Princess The Revolutionary Life, Love Affairs, and Adventures of Princess Sophy, 2007, 2009 )
• Eurydice Street: a place in Athens. London: Granta Books, 2004
• The history of emigration from Greece. Brochure in reading for young people ( 32 pp. ). New York: Franklin Watts, 1997
• Dealing in identities: insiders and outsiders in a Greek town. Diss Univ. Cambridge 1989