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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Me n my gal Anna selling STEALING DADs @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social yesterday. Generous host Prof Gonda Van Steen. @johnkittmer.bsky.social (former UK ambassador to Greece w/Yorkshire soul of a Greek poet) made the interview brilliant fun. Thanks Kevin Featherstone & everyone who came. 🧡🩷🧡

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I admired @johnkittmer.bsky.com even more when he gave up diplomacy to write a PhD thesis on the Communist poet Yiannis Ritsos - hear him discuss Ritsos & Theodorakis songs on my podcast Athens Unpacked (Ep. 6, Songs & Poems).

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

When @johnkittmer.bsky.social arrived in Athens slap bang in the thick of the appalling economic crisis in 2013, there were many challenges but he quickly became hugely popular & active, aided by his perfect modern Greek - he could sing Greek songs, quote Greek poetry & use twitter like a local.

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Mary Portas & me getting in the mood for our discussion about life, books, bereavement & friendship at the magnificent @PritchardandUre Camden 7pm 17.09.25 Tickets via P&U website www.pritchardandure.com/new-events #maryportas #books #friendship

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A lovely piece in ToVima about the upcoming @Corfu Lit Fest. Corfu Literary Festival. Great events incl Lee Durrell & Julian Hoffman & a literary feast at the gorgeous Villa Posillipo where “THE DURRELLS” was filmed. Check website for details & tickets. www.tovima.com/culture/corf...

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My first swim at Parliament Hill Lido. Thanks Gillian Stern & @JoannaBriscoe for knowing it would put me in a good mood. UK Lido pools with their gorgeous 1930s designs are surely amongst the best of British institutions? And if you’re not Italian, do you say leedo or lyedo?

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you’re in Corfu, London or Athens over the next months I’d love to see you at one of these varied events involving STEALING DAD and much more. #stealingdad @littlebrown.bsky.social

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What a fabulous evening @owlbookshop.bsky.social with Reeta Chakrabarti discussing her “Finding Belle” and my “Stealing Dad” with the incomparable freelance editor and ghost writer Gillian Stern. #Stealingdad @littlebrown.bsky.social

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Tuesday 22 July, 6.30 at @owlbookshop.bsky.social Discussion with Reeta Chakrabarti about our novels with excellent editor Gillian Stern #StealingDad #FindingBelle #ReetaChakrabarti owlbookshop.co.uk/product/sofk...

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Zen and the art of….. pigeon-fancying? Rock dove or London pigeon, one is rarely far from a feathered friend in the company of Anna #HAWXX

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A book seems a small thing when you have this view. Last night - Aegean launch of STEALING DAD! I sprayed books & guests with scent worn by eponymous Dad (S.M. Novella - Aqua della Regina).Thank you Holly Lueders for a magnificent party! I’m still reeling. #Stealingdad @littlbrown.bsky.social

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My goddaughter sent me this photo of her son with my novel and assured me that no babies were harmed in the making. Delighted that his first hardback book should be STEALING DAD @littlebrown.bsky.social #StealingDad

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Roll up for the grande finale of all the reading, discussing & debating this year at the CEREMONY for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award. We announce the WINNER - Great Hall, King’s College London & streamed live on Zoom Fri 13 June 2025 7 pm. Tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/runciman-a...

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“Funny, sad and beautifully written.” A 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 review of STEALING DAD @littlebrown.bsky.social in today’s @telegraphnews.bsky.social

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I grew up learning of the Holocaust fr my Grandmother - interned by Nazis. Now, I can’t watch a genocide taking place & not act. Today 1000s like me w/ no ‘skin in the game’ can’t take the horror of genocide & marched. #CeasefireNow #stoparmingisrael #KeirStarmer #DavidLammy

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

So happy to see STEALING DAD out in the world. Seen here at John Sandoe Books. Thank you @CorsairBooks @LittleBrownUK 🧡🩷🧡🩷🧡🩷🧡🩷🧡🩷🧡🩷🧡

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

You may not think you are interested in birds but you will be when you’ve read BIRD SCHOOL by Adam Nicolson. Thrilling, beautiful, astonishing, moving, intimate & wondrous. Amazon #1 bestseller in ecology. #twitcher #birder #bird #birdschool #adamnicolson

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

STEALING DAD is published this week @littlebrown.bsky.social Please do pre-order! guardianbookshop.com/stealing-dad...

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I’m happy each time I pass this pot that I planted with rose geranium, nasturtiums & snapdragons - σκυλάκια, ‘little dogs’ in Greek. It gives salads, offers nectar for bees & consistently raises the spirits with anticipation of delights. I almost feel I could call it a friend. Is that mad?

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

IN MY ARMS AT LAST! STEALING DAD 🧡🩷🧡 Out May 8th. Pre-order now #StealingDad #novel

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Not many things compare to the pleasure of a daughter reading your proof & finding it funny. BUT! People who pre-order #STEALINGDAD also make me v. happy! Pre-orders show book shops readers are interested & book is stocked. They get the whole shebang going. Local bookshops if poss!

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Καλό Πάσχα! Happy Easter! My paschal disaster & the requisite reincarnation: culinary catastrophe to Art. Scorched dyed eggs - like something volcanic & fossilised. Even the burnt pan is pretty. Easter transforms darkness, death and grief into light, life and hope. And eggs can show us that.

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you are my friend I can’t imagine you won’t adore PODYSSEY as I do. Easter weekend (esp in Greece or if you love Greece) is perfect time to listen to the themes of life, death, regeneration: Persephone, Orpheus, Narcissus… @sturdyalex.bsky.social Bravissimo! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I just wish I could post the scent from my lemon tree. One of the most magical aspects of Athenian spring is the outrageous citrus blossom bombing the nostrils on every street corner. #lemon #blossom #athens #greece #scent

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We have a shortlist! Delighted to reveal the 6 books we chose for the Runciman Award 2025 shortlist. It was tough to leave out some fine publications, but this is a fantastic & literary collection of the best writing on Greece published in English in the last year. Congratulations! #Runciman2025

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If you're a writer, you can find out on the LibGen database if Meta is using your pirated work to train AI. I just did & found several of my books there! You can also check for other authors, sign a protest & ask Mark Zuckerberg to do the right thing & pay for using copyrighted work.

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Here’s the fantastic long list for the #Runciman #Award this year, with exceptional fiction, poetry, history & sparklingly original takes on the ancient world. Next week we must choose the short list of the best book published in English about #Greece. Which are your favourites? #Runciman2025

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And to soothe the spirit, a bunch of wild spring flowers including fresias, camomile and garlic. . . . #Athens #Suburb #Vouliagmeni #Greece #spring #flowers #garlic #camomile #wildfresias

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Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

These days I feel like a ‘good German’ during the Nazi’s Holocaust, watching on while an entire population of children, women, old people and men was being exterminated. What can we ‘nice people’ do to stop the slaughter in Gaza? Wringing hands on social media feels absurd. © Bashar TALEB / AFP

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