Klaiti Sotiriadou

Kaiti Sotiriadou was born in Thessaloniki. After completing her secondary education, she got married and settled in Athens, where she pursued further studies. She graduated from the American College Anatolia in Thessaloniki and completed her final year of high school at Ben Lomond High School in Utah, USA, through the American Field Service Student Exchange Scholarship Program. She studied English Literature at the American College of Greece, Deree, where she received her B.A. (1976) with Highest Distinction. She pursued postgraduate studies at the School of Comparative Literature at the University of Essex, England, earning an M.A. in the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation (1982). In 1998, she attended screenwriting courses at the International Academy of Broadcasting in Montreux, Switzerland, with professor and author Andy Horton. In 1999, she took screenwriting courses in Los Angeles, USA, with the renowned writer and professor Syd Field. She also participated in seminars for university graduates in the screenwriting program led by Lew Hunter, director of Film and TV Studies at UCLA in Los Angeles. Since 1973, she has worked as a professional literary translator, collaborating with various publishing houses and literary magazines. She speaks French, Spanish, and English and translates from French, English, Spanish, and Catalan. She is a poet and prose writer, with her poems and short stories translated into Spanish, English, Turkish, and Bulgarian. Over the past ten years, she has also been involved in writing scripts for television, cinema, and theater. She taught English literature (poetry, prose, essay, and theater) for three years at the American College of Greece, Deree (1987-1990). She taught the Spanish direction in workshops as an external associate in the Postgraduate Translation Studies program of the Faculty of Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University (2004-2006). She also taught translation workshops at the European Translation Center (EKEMEL). She served on the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Authors’ Society for three terms. She was a board member of the National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI) as a representative of the Hellenic Authors’ Society (2010). She represented the Hellenic Authors’ Society on the Cultural Committee "Waves of the Three Seas" based at the International Center of Writers and Translators in Rhodes for three years (2002-2004). She has been a representative of the Hellenic Authors’ Society at the European Council of Literary Translators' Associations (CEATL) since 2003 and served as General Secretary of CEATL for two years (2004-2006).