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Posted on: 09-07-2019 | Category: Articles & Interviews
READING GREECE: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GREEK EMBASSY, LONDON

Reading Greece | Sofka Zinovieff: “I have a strong belief in the resilience of Greeks” What does it mean to be Greek? What connects Greek and British people? How does the ancient Greek heritage weigh on contemporary Greeks? These are some of the questions that the acclaimed British author, Sofka Zinovieff, attempts to answer in her

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Posted on: 08-07-2019 | Category: Events
CORFU LITERARY FESTIVAL 23-30 September 2019

Sofka will talk on Tuesday 24 September at the Corfu Public Library in the fortress at 7.30 pm Three Anglo-Greek Families: Three Books CORFU LITERARY FESTIVAL 23rd to 30th September 2019   https://www.corfuliteraryfestival.com/ To register your interest and to be sent ticketing details,  please send an email to  info@cricketcorfu.com       ​When the island

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Posted on: 19-05-2019 | Category: Events
TALKING ABOUT PUTNEY AT PUTNEY HIGH SCHOOL

A discussion with students about Putney and the process of writing a novel. Tuesday 14 June 2019  

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Posted on: 09-05-2019 | Category: Events
ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND THE ACADEMY, University of Cambridge, May 7th 2019

Once an Anthropologist, Always an Anthropologist? With alumnus Sofka Zinovieff, journalist and writer Sofka will talk about how her studies in social anthropology have influenced her life and work. After completing a PhD on contemporary Greek identity, she became a journalist and writer with a lifelong connection to Greece, which has featured in several of

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Posted on: 17-04-2019 | Category: Events
WRITING BOLDLY: Brave Fiction with Emma Glass and Sofka Zinovieff at the Bloomsbury Institute 15th May 2019

Step inside Bloomsbury Publishing as we explore provocative storytelling and two authors of contemporary literary fiction who are unafraid to push the boundaries of style and content and be bold in their writing.

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Posted on: 21-03-2019 | Category: Events
PUTNEY PAPERBACK

Putney will be published on paperback on June the 4th, 2019.  

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Posted on: 19-03-2019 | Category: Events
CHARLESTON FESTIVAL 27 May 2019

  INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE Sofka Zinovieff and Tessa Hadley will be appearing with Juliet Nicolson Sofka Zinovieff’s novel Putney is a contemporary Lolita. Its subject is sexual obsession, revolving around an abusive relationship, unacknowledged for forty years, between a grown man and a young adolescent. Tessa Hadley’s novel Late in the Day explores the impact of loss on a group of

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Posted on: 09-01-2019 | Category: Articles & Interviews
Putney chosen as a Best Book of the Year 2018

Andrew Marr in the New Statesman I “hugely enjoyed Putney by Sofka Zinovieff, about sexual obsession in the freethinking 1970s, and the anti-paedophilia world of today. It is beautifully written and genuinely shocking; it’s as if Nabokov had given Lolita eyes and a very clear voice.”   Alex Preston in The Observer “Smart and furiously gripping.”  

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Posted on: 09-01-2019 | Category: Articles & Interviews
“Creepy but not criminal”. The latest Woody Allen story. The Guardian

The latest Woody Allen story is creepy, but let’s not call it criminal Sofka Zinovieff   I don’t defend the film director over his alleged affair with 17-year-old Christina Engelhardt, but the realities of power and sex are complex   The Guardian 20 Dec 2018   I love the #MeToo movement. As the mother of two

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