Angela Dimitrakaki's first novel was the critically acclaimed Antarktiki (1997), a wild story of Athens in the 1990s through the eyes of its youth. It was followed by the collection of short stories Nosebleed (1999) and her second novel, Antisea (2002), a magic realist take on the underground adventures of a hesitant generation. Her third novel, The Manifesto of Defeat (2006, shortlisted for multiple awards) - for some, foreseeing the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe - is cited among the century's most important novels in Greek language. Her novels 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 an urban legend, a bunch of working-class girls and the lost rivers of Athens in the 1980s, her novella Four Testimonies about the Exhumation of the River Errinyos (2004, revised 2016) has appeared in French, German, and Estonian, and received the Athens Academy Award as well as the award of the leading Greek literary journal O Anagnostis.  Educated in Greece and Britain, Angela is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh while she lectures widely in Europe.