Ioanna Karystiani
Ioanna Karystiani (Greek: Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη) is a Greek screenwriter and winner of the Greek National Book Award.
After studying Law, she initially made a name for herself as a cartoonist and screenplay writer. It was not until the 90s that she decided to publish prose. She has also worked as a scriptwriter and made a name for herself among the Greek film industry.
She lives in Athens and in the Greek island of Andros and is married to the Greek film director Pantelis Voulgaris. They have two children. They have worked together in films such as Nyfes and Psyhi Vathia.
Ioanna Karystiani has had success with her short stories book "I kyria Kataki" (Mrs Kataki) and her novel "Mikra Anglia" (Little England, published in English as "The Jasmine Island") in which she describes the romances, lives and work of a family in the sailor community of the island of Andros in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel achieved the Greek National Award for Literature.
“brown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest.”
“[T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.”