Dorina Papaliou grew up in Athens. She read History at Brown University and received an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. She is the author of two novels, short stories, non-fiction and children’s books. Her novel A Certain Quality of Light (Ikaros), was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), 2014 and longlisted for the Athens Prize for Literature, 2014. Gutter (Kedros) received the IBBY AWARD, 2008. A Certain Quality of Light is currently under production by NaF+, a global film production company, for an adaptation of the novel to a drama television miniseries for the Greek national TV Channel ERT, and ERTFlix.

Dorina Papaliou currently lives in Oxford. She is working on her next novel and reviews foreign fiction in translation for Greek literary magazines.