Krystalli Glyniadakis

Krystalli Glyniadakis (Athens, 1979) is an award-winning poet and translator. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in interactive historical documentary from the University of Bournemouth; her i-doc was shortlisted for the prestigious New Media Writing Prize in 2020. As a poet, she’s been awarded the Greek National Book Award for her 2017 collection The Return of the Dead (Η επιστροφή των νεκρών).

Her next book, Days of Kindness (Ημέρες Καλοσύνης, 2023) was again shortlisted for the same award. Her poems have been translated and published into collections and literary journals in English, French, Turkish, Finnish, German, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian, and German. She’s a translator of Norwegian literature into Greek and has been honoured by NORLA as “translator of the month”. Her translation of Jo Nesbøs Kongen av Os won the 2025 Public Book Award for Best Translated Fiction in Greece.

She’s worked as an editor in various publishing houses, as a journalist and a columnist for both Greek and Norwegian media, and has run various book clubs. She’s an elected member of both the Greek Authors’ Society and the Greek Poets’ Circle.