Tina Mandilara

Tina Mandilara has a lot of favorite writers, but it was her love for Gilles Deleuze and Eric Hobsbawm that led her to translate their works into Greek and make them accessible to the Greek reading public. Born and raised in Athens, she studied Greek Philology and Philosophy at the University of Athens and went on to pursue her post-graduate studies in the UK, focusing on Art History and Aesthetics (University of Essex) and Political Philosophy and Theory (London School of Economics). Since 2000, she has been working as a journalist, contributing articles to popular magazines and newspapers like Proto Thema and LiFO, where she has a weekly book column. Among the many literary luminaries she has interviewed are Nobel laureates, like Jon Fosse and Olga Tokarczuk, and internationally acclaimed writers, such as Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Rachel Cusk and Claudio Magris. She has a soft spot for Walter Benjamin’s travel writing and Michel Foucault’s critical philosophy, she loves archaeology and genealogy, lost metropolises and travels to the East, but also holds a special place in her heart for Virginia Woolf’s lyrical descriptions that have stayed with her all her life.