Ismini Kapantai

Ismini Kapantai was born in Athens in 1939.
She married Vassos Kapantai.
Doukas Kapantai is her son.

Her works:
Seven Times the Ring (Estia 1989);
Apeirotan and the Turks, novel (Estia 1990, Kastaniotis 2009);
The Story of Ioli, novel (Estia 1992);
Where is the Weather Now?, novel (Estia 1996);
At the Secret School, children’s book (Potamos 1997);
Ionia – The Greeks in Asia Minor, album (Adam 1997);
Churches in Constantinople, album, bilingual edition (Kastaniotis 1999);
Floria of the Waters, novel (Kastaniotis 1999);
The Salt of the Earth, novel (Kastaniotis 2002);
We Have Ourselves, novel (Kastaniotis 2007);
Eight Times the Ring, novel (Kastaniotis 2008);
A Cynical Story, novel (Kastaniotis 2008);
With a View of Life, novel (Kastaniotis 2009);
Sicilian Vespers, novel (Kastaniotis 2013);
A Townhouse in Halandri, novel (Ikaros 2017).

Translated works:
Seven Times the Ring, McGill University Press, Montreal 1994 and Balkan Library, Sofia 2005;
Apeirotan and the Turks, Orfelin Publishing, Belgrade 1995;
Ionia (The Greeks in Asia Minor), Adam 1999;
Floria of the Waters (English) 2002, for which the translator Rick Newton received the Elizabeth Constantinides Translation Prize from the Modern Greek Studies Association;
We Have Ourselves, Crocetti Editore, Milan 2009.

Translations:
The Birds of the Innocent Wood, a novel by Deirdre Madden, 2003 (Hatzinikoli);
Flowers of the Word (Champ Fleury) by Geoffroy Tory, 2005 (Kotinos);
October, Eight O’Clock, short stories, by Norman Manea, 2011 (Kastaniotis);
Mathilda, novella, by Mary Shelley, 2013 (Nefeli);
Barchester Towers, a novel by Anthony Trollope, 2017 (Gutenberg).

Her short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines; she has also written scripts for documentaries.
She was awarded the Christian Letters Prize (1990) and the Ourani Prize of the Academy of Athens (1992) for the novel Apeirotan and the Turks.