Angeliki Darlasi - Rights Guide

Angeliki Darlasi is an author, playwright, screen writer and creative writing tutor. She was born in Athens (1973). She studied Theatre at the University of Athens, and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She worked as a theatre director and as a theatre and creative writing tutor in schools and universities. Making her debut in 2000 as a playwright Angeliki was awarded the second prize in a national competition. Her debut in children’s literature was in 2004 with her novel Dream Guardians , a modern allegorical fairy tale, which won the Greek State Prize for that year. Since then she has devoted herself to writing, fulfilling her childhood’s dream to become an author. She has written over thirty books in various literary genres: novels, short stories, picture books, audio theatre, libretti, lyrics, verses, graphic novels; many became best sellers as well as long sellers. Alki Zei, the grande dame of Greek Children’s Literature has praised Angeliki’s writing saying: “She is not just any writer, rather a weaver of tales, stitch by masterful stitch”. Several of her books have been adapted for theatre and puppet theatre and two of them are in the development stage for movies. Many of her plays for adults and children have been performed in Greece and abroad. Books and plays of hers have been or are being translated into Korean, Turkish, French, Macedonian, German and Italian. She has been a member of committees of the State Prizes for Children’s Books, a jury member of the 25th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People (2022) and the president of the children’s jury of Camera Zizanio-European meeting of young people’s audiovisual creation (2012-2017). She is also a translator of children’s literature, having translated into Greek authors such as Michael Morpurgo, Christopher Edge, Maggie Stiefvater, L.D. Lapinski. She participates in programs encouraging the love of reading and writing in children and teenagers, as well as the theatrical and cinematographic creation and education of children and young people. 3