Iphigenia Theodorou

Ifigenia Theodorou was born in Thessaloniki and is a graduate of the School of Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied fine binding at the La Cambre School of Visual Arts in Brussels and paper conservation seminars at the School of Conservation and Bookbinding in Ascona, Switzerland. She has participated in group exhibitions of fine bookbinding. She taught Greek as a volunteer at the National School of Vienna and at the Berlitz International School in Bonn and Cologne. As the partner and companion of a Greek diplomat, she has lived in various European and Asian countries, carrying those experiences into her books. In 1997, her short story collection Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh was published by Ikaros Publishing. This was followed by Melek Means Angel (Ellinika Grammata, 2001; Patakis Publishers, 2015), which was nominated for the Diavazo magazine novel award; Language of Marble (Ellinika Grammata, 2005; Diaplasi, 2018); The Taste of the Desert (Patakis Publishers, 2012), which was translated into Arabic and published by Sefsafa in Cairo; The Little That Ends (Patakis Publishers, 2021); and It’s a Sea (Ikaros Publishing, 2024), which was honored with the 2025 Nikos Themellis Award by O Anagnostis e-magazine.