[Translator] Sofia Fotiou was born in Nuremberg in 1970 and graduated from the elementary school, middle school and Greek Lyceum at Barmen, Wuppertal. She returned to Greece in 1987, where she studied Greek Language and Literature at the University of Ioannina, from which she graduated in 1991 with a major in Psychology. She studied at Goethe Institut Thessaloniki until 1995, from which, among other qualifications, she also graduated with a degree in translation.