Angela Dimitrakaki's first novel was the critically acclaimed Antarktiki (1997, revised edition 2006), a wild story of Athens in the 1990s through the eyes of its youth. This first novel was followed by the collection of short stories Nosebleed (1999) as a magic realist take on the adventures of a hesitant generation. Her second novel, Antisea (2002), The Manifesto of Defeat (2006, shortlisted for multiple awards), Inside A Girl like You (2009, shortlisted for the Athens Academy novel award), Aeroplast (2015) and TINA, The Story of an Alignment (2019, shortlisted for the State Literary Award) pursue narratives of conflict and breakthrough in storylines that connect unlikely places and histories of the European continent. Following the lives of four teenagers and the lost rivers of Athens in the 1980s, her novella Four Testimonies about the Exhumation of the River Errinyos has appeared in anthologies in France and Germany, provided the idea of a film, and was given the Athens Academy Award as well as the award of the leading Greek literary journal, O Anagnostis. Educated in Greece and Britain, Angela teaches and researches contemporary art theory at the University of Edinburgh while she lectures widely in Europe.