Marianne Apostolides

Festival Participant

Marianne Apostolides is the author of three books. Her most recent novel, The Lucky Child (Mansfield Press, 2010), follows the life of Taki Apostolides as he grows up in wartorn Greece. Through its controlled confusion of fiction and non-fiction, this book asks deeper questions about identity, history, memory, and the search for ‘truth.’ Apostolides’ earlier novel, Swim, explores the eroticism of language and story; the Globe & Mail says this book is "handled with assured grace and dynamic lucidity." Her first book, Inner Hunger: A Young Woman’s Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia, was published by W.W. Norton and translated into Spanish and Swedish. She lives in Toronto with her two children.