Kallia Papadaki

{{short description|Greek author and screenwriter (born 1978)}}

Kallia Papadaki (born 1978) is a Greek author and screenwriter.{{cite news|url= http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/index.php/interviews/reading-greece/6406-reading-greece-kallia-papadaki-on-fiction,-scriptwriting-and-literature-as-an-ever-changing-world-map|title= Reading Greece: Kallia Papadaki on Fiction, Scriptwriting and Literature as an Ever-Changing World Map |date= April 15, 2018|website= Greek News Agenda}} Born in the border town of Didymoteicho, she grew up in Thessaloniki. She moved to the USA, where she studied economics at Bard College and Brandeis University. Moving back to Greece, she studied film at the {{ill|Stavrakos Film School|el|Σχολή Κινηματογράφου Τηλεόρασης Λ. Σταυράκου}} in Athens.{{Cite web |url=http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/author/2017/kallia-papadaki |title=Bio |access-date=2018-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423062104/http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/author/2017/kallia-papadaki |archive-date=2017-04-23 |url-status=dead }}

Papadaki's first feature script September premiered at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Her 2015 novel Dendrites won the EU Prize for Literature.{{cite news |date=April 24, 2017 |title=Kallia Papadaki One of 12 Winners of the EU Prize For Literature 2017 |url=https://www.grekomania.com/news/2017/4/24/grechanka-v-chisle-laureatov-premii-evropejskogo-soyuza-po-literature |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415190527/https://www.grekomania.com/news/2017/4/24/grechanka-v-chisle-laureatov-premii-evropejskogo-soyuza-po-literature |archive-date=2018-04-15 |website=Grekomania.com}} Other books include The Back-Lot Sound (short stories) and Lavender in December (poetry).{{cite news|url= https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/books/12252-publishers-35-countries-delhi-s-world-book-fair|title= Publishers from 35 countries at Delhi's World Book Fair|date= January 8, 2018|newspaper= The Sunday Guardian}}