{"id":6152,"date":"2025-11-11T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6152"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:39:25","slug":"theodoros-grigoriadis","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/theodoros-grigoriadis\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodoros Grigoriadis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6152\" class=\"elementor elementor-6152 elementor-5660\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e30efd2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e30efd2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71da41c\" data-id=\"71da41c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dedb5c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dedb5c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>The concept of plural identities has underpinned the work of Theodoros Grigoriadis throughout his long career, from the groundbreaking<\/span><em><span>\u00a0<\/span>The Old Rag<\/em><span>, the first Greek queer novel, published in 2001, to his acclaimed\u00a0<\/span><em>Life at the Borderline<\/em><span>, which won the National Award for Novel in 2016. In his latest book,\u00a0<\/span><em>Helsinki<\/em><span>, he approaches the issue of identity through a refugee story, another theme close to his heart since his grandfather was a Greek refugee from Pontus. Grigoriadis was born in 1956 in Paleochori, Kavala. He studied English Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and moved to Athens at the age of 30. He taught English in public schools for 29 years, organized a series of literary seminars for the Serres Public Library, and later presented and produced the literary documentary series\u00a0<\/span><em>The Language of Writing<\/em><span>\u00a0on the Greek Parliament TV station. He has written 12 novels, four short story collections, two novellas, and a theater monologue. His books have been translated into French, Danish and Arabic, and theatrical adaptations of his works have been performed at the Athens Epidaurus Festival and the Philippi Festival.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of plural identities has underpinned the work of Theodoros Grigoriadis throughout his long career, from the groundbreaking\u00a0The Old Rag, the first Greek queer novel, published in 2001, to his acclaimed\u00a0Life at the Borderline, which won the National Award for Novel in 2016. In his latest book,\u00a0Helsinki, he approaches the issue of identity through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5661,"menu_order":67,"template":"","team_category":[88,73],"class_list":["post-6152","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_category-author"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6152\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}