Sofka Zinovieff
@sofkazinovieff.bsky.social
Author of STEALING DAD, PUTNEY, Eurydice Street. Podcast: Athens Unpacked.
www.Sofkazinovieff.com
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So happy to see STEALING DAD out in the world. Seen here at John Sandoe Books.
Thank you @CorsairBooks @LittleBrownUK
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Thank you @CorsairBooks @LittleBrownUK
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"Apples are health, vitality, fertility, life. So, when offered, the gift of life. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. The most innocent of bribes for a teacher. But if apples are life, then the negative space their absence creates is the opposite. Apples are also a typical gift to Santa Muerte."
BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
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November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Apples are health, vitality, fertility, life. So, when offered, the gift of life. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. The most innocent of bribes for a teacher. But if apples are life, then the negative space their absence creates is the opposite. Apples are also a typical gift to Santa Muerte."
Reposted by Sofka Zinovieff
You were a delight, Sofka. Thank you for doing this event with us! “Stealing Dad” is a wonderful book.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You were a delight, Sofka. Thank you for doing this event with us! “Stealing Dad” is a wonderful book.
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. 🧡🩷🧡
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. 🧡🩷🧡
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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. 🧡🩷🧡
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. 🧡🩷🧡
This looks SO good! You can read a seductive sample on Apple Books or kindle.
Much enjoyed this highly innovative and stylistically poised novel, “Brandy Sour”, about the #Cyprus problems, by #ConstantiaSoteriou in an elegant translation by #LinaProtopapa. It focuses on the #LedraPalace Hotel, caught now in the Green Zone between the 1974 lines. Recommended!
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This looks SO good! You can read a seductive sample on Apple Books or kindle.
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Thank you, Sofka, for this dazzling and generous write-up. I’m hugely looking forward to our talk about Greece, writing and your brilliant novel, “Stealing Dad”!
November 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thank you, Sofka, for this dazzling and generous write-up. I’m hugely looking forward to our talk about Greece, writing and your brilliant novel, “Stealing Dad”!
A HUGE honour that philhellene, former UK ambassador to Greece Dr @johnkittmer.bsky.social will interview me @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Wed 19 Nov 6.30pm to discuss my latest novel STEALING DAD & Greece. Tickets free via eventbrite.
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Stealing Dad: In conversation with Sofka Zinovieff
The renowned novelist discusses her latest book , which was inspired by incidents at the time of the death of her own father.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A HUGE honour that philhellene, former UK ambassador to Greece Dr @johnkittmer.bsky.social will interview me @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Wed 19 Nov 6.30pm to discuss my latest novel STEALING DAD & Greece. Tickets free via eventbrite.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stealing-d...
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Thanks so much. We had a great time!
@sofkazinovieff.bsky.social @julianhoffman.bsky.social Just finished listening to this as was preparing my lesson to graduate students tomorrow. Was wonderful listening to two great writers about their experiences leaving and writing about Greece.
This should be a great seminar to attend whether is in person or by zoom. I will try not to miss it. @julianhoffman.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thanks so much. We had a great time!
Reposted by Sofka Zinovieff
This should be a great seminar to attend whether is in person or by zoom. I will try not to miss it. @julianhoffman.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
British School at Athens :
Writing Greece: An evening with Sofka Zinovieff and Julian Hoffman
In-conversation Writing Greece: An evening with Sofka Zinovieff and Julian Hoffman Neither Julian Hoffman nor Sofka Zinovieff are originally from Greece and yet they’ve both devoted a large part of […...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This should be a great seminar to attend whether is in person or by zoom. I will try not to miss it. @julianhoffman.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
Thank you!
This should be a great seminar to attend whether is in person or by zoom. I will try not to miss it. @julianhoffman.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
British School at Athens :
Writing Greece: An evening with Sofka Zinovieff and Julian Hoffman
In-conversation Writing Greece: An evening with Sofka Zinovieff and Julian Hoffman Neither Julian Hoffman nor Sofka Zinovieff are originally from Greece and yet they’ve both devoted a large part of […...
www.bsa.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thank you!
TOMORROW!
SOLD OUT but available to join online at link below. Can’t wait to talk WRITING GREECE with the wonderful @julianhoffman.bsky.social at
@britschoolathens.bsky.social
SOLD OUT but available to join online at link below. Can’t wait to talk WRITING GREECE with the wonderful @julianhoffman.bsky.social at
@britschoolathens.bsky.social
Delighted to be joining @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social at the @britschoolathens.bsky.social on Oct 22nd to talk about our recent books and how Greece has changed our lives and shaped us as writers. The in-person event is sold out but can be attended online via the link.
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
TOMORROW!
SOLD OUT but available to join online at link below. Can’t wait to talk WRITING GREECE with the wonderful @julianhoffman.bsky.social at
@britschoolathens.bsky.social
SOLD OUT but available to join online at link below. Can’t wait to talk WRITING GREECE with the wonderful @julianhoffman.bsky.social at
@britschoolathens.bsky.social
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
7pm 17.09.25
Tickets via P&U website www.pritchardandure.com/new-events
#maryportas #books #friendship
September 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
7pm 17.09.25
Tickets via P&U website www.pritchardandure.com/new-events
#maryportas #books #friendship
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...
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...
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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...
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...
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?
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?
August 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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?
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?
Such a clear & useful explanation by Sir Jonathan Porritt on New Statesman podcast of why the UK govt is lying about Palestine Action & how these young, peace-loving protestors always clearly stated they would not use violence against people.
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Branding pensioners terrorists:
Podcast Episode · The New Statesman | UK politics and culture · 13/08/2025 · 22m
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August 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Such a clear & useful explanation by Sir Jonathan Porritt on New Statesman podcast of why the UK govt is lying about Palestine Action & how these young, peace-loving protestors always clearly stated they would not use violence against people.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Honoured and proud to have signed this letter.
We must stop the ongoing genocide and starvation of innocent civilians in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
We must stop the ongoing genocide and starvation of innocent civilians in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott
More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid
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August 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Honoured and proud to have signed this letter.
We must stop the ongoing genocide and starvation of innocent civilians in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
We must stop the ongoing genocide and starvation of innocent civilians in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
August 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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
#stealingdad @littlebrown.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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
#stealingdad @littlebrown.bsky.social
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
#Stealingdad @littlebrown.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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
#Stealingdad @littlebrown.bsky.social
Ooh! Looking forward very much to this. Such a fan of Leonora Carrington’s writing and of @backlisted.bsky.social which introduces me to countless brilliant books 🙌
Preparing to record the next episode of @backlisted.bsky.social or the one after or the one after that, to be honest I’ve lost track. But it’s definitely about Leonora Carrington. 🐴
July 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Ooh! Looking forward very much to this. Such a fan of Leonora Carrington’s writing and of @backlisted.bsky.social which introduces me to countless brilliant books 🙌
Tuesday 22 July, 6.30 at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
Discussion with Reeta Chakrabarti about our novels with excellent editor Gillian Stern
#StealingDad
#FindingBelle
#ReetaChakrabarti
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Discussion with Reeta Chakrabarti about our novels with excellent editor Gillian Stern
#StealingDad
#FindingBelle
#ReetaChakrabarti
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/sofk...
July 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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...
Discussion with Reeta Chakrabarti about our novels with excellent editor Gillian Stern
#StealingDad
#FindingBelle
#ReetaChakrabarti
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/sofk...
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
pigeon-fancying?
Rock dove or London pigeon, one is rarely far from a feathered friend in the company of Anna #HAWXX
July 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
pigeon-fancying?
Rock dove or London pigeon, one is rarely far from a feathered friend in the company of Anna #HAWXX
Completely fascinating. More congratulations @sturdyalex.bsky.social for this phenomenal podcast.
We made Aesop. He is a crowd-sourced literary celebrity. He is the lie that sustains the truth of his stories. And at a time when the distinction between fact and fiction seems paper thin, the way we construct the fictions that support our facts - what we call “a narrative” - matters more than ever.
📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️
Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
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Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
July 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Completely fascinating. More congratulations @sturdyalex.bsky.social for this phenomenal podcast.
Delighted to find STEALING DAD @littlebrown.bsky.social , discussed & appreciated in this fascinating piece about Greece, disasters, the state & tourism in the Irish Times by Richard Pine
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The indifference of Greece’s 36 million tourists to ‘catastrophes and corruption’ is forgivable
Greece letter: Debate about the Tempe rail tragedy represents a pervasive way of judging whether the state is inherently unstable
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July 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Delighted to find STEALING DAD @littlebrown.bsky.social , discussed & appreciated in this fascinating piece about Greece, disasters, the state & tourism in the Irish Times by Richard Pine
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Take a look at this fabulous and unmissable auction (from art & clothes) to theatre tickets and meetings with actors including Juliet Stevenson . All in aid of Health Workers for Palestine.
I’ve already started bidding. Do let me know what you’re interested in.
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I’ve already started bidding. Do let me know what you’re interested in.
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Voices of Solidarity - BidAid
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July 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Take a look at this fabulous and unmissable auction (from art & clothes) to theatre tickets and meetings with actors including Juliet Stevenson . All in aid of Health Workers for Palestine.
I’ve already started bidding. Do let me know what you’re interested in.
bidaid.com/auction/pale...
I’ve already started bidding. Do let me know what you’re interested in.
bidaid.com/auction/pale...