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Jane Assimakopoulos

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Name
  
Jane Assimakopoulos

Education
  
Brandeis University

Role
  
Writer

Jane A. Assimakopoulos is an American-born writer and translator who lives in Ioannina, Greece.

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Life

She graduated from Brandeis University, in 1964. Her brother was William Nisselson.

Assimakopoulos' translations are mostly of Greek books and articles, although she has also translated a few works written in French. Assimakopoulos has translated these into English, including works translated in England and in the United States.

The writers whose works she has translated into English include Thanassis Valtinos, Yiannis Kontos, Sotiris Dimitriou, Ioannis G. Tsatsaris and Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke. Her most famous translation is of Valtinos' Data from the Decade of the Sixties: a Novel.

Her work appeared in Metamorphoses.

Works

  • "From 'The Book of Andreas Kordopatis, Part I, America'" Words without Borders
  • Thanases Valtinos (2000). Data from the decade of the sixties: a novel. Translators Jane Assimakopoulos, Stavros Deligiorgis. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1699-3. 
  • Thanassis Valtinos (2000). Deep blue almost black: selected fiction. Translators Jane Assimakopoulos, Stavros Deligiorgis. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1766-2. 
  • References

    Jane Assimakopoulos Wikipedia