The Greek
more commercial writer in recent years, with sales of one million copies, which
gets angry when they call books her "children",
who clouds when talks about George, Alexander and Maria, her family, who
received the title 'Writer of the Year 2009 " by the magazine Life &
Style, with books translated into Turkish, Albanian and Chinese, who do not
like her biggest success "To spiti dipla sto potami", the
professional who knows how to speak to people, the woman with the magic writing
pen who succeeded to put in each home at least one book ...
Due to the opening
of the first Reading Club of Police in Greece,
Lena Manda attended Thessaloniki's
Police Headquarters on Thursday 31/1/2013 morning and talked about her life and
her work. The event was about her book "Theano, i likena tis Polis"
published in 2005 by Psichogios, had a great impact to the people who rushed to
meet the famous author and to sign their books. The author arrived at the venue
with her husband, George, and her daughter, Maria, and after making a brief
reference to her life from the first years in Constantinople,
to her economic destruction and her successful marriage, she replied with
pleasure to the questions of the people, and did not forget to mention her new
novel to be released soon.
Lena Manda was
born in 1964 in
Constantinople, at the age of five she moved with her parents in Athens where later she
met her husband. From young she liked writing, at the age of nine she wrote her
first fairytale. Her mother then bought her her first typewriter to computerize
her manuscripts. Studied kindergarten though never worked in this field. At the
age of nineteen years she met and two years later married the businessman
George Mandas. In a difficult period of her life she returned to her old love,
writing. And if then was a recourse, today is her favourite habit. For a few
years she was working a puppet troupe that was playing stories written by her,
as well as famous folktale adaptations.
She also worked as program director at a big radio station and also edited
commercials. Today is mother of two children, Alexander and Maria. Since 2001 she
published her first book entitled "Ti mera pou se gnorisa", published
by Livanis, has never stopped writing and every year, in May, publish a new book.
After the first success she "moved" to Psichogios and sincenow she released
eight more novels and one collection of short stories. Her second novel, "Vals
me dodeka Theous", released in 2005 and recently moved to the small
screen, is her favourite one. Followed by "Theano, i likena tis Polis"
in 2006, "To spiti dipla sto potami" in 2007, "I alli pleura tou
nomismatos" in 2008, "Erotas san vrohi" in 2009, "To
telefteo tsigaro" and the collection of short stories entitled "De
mporei, tha strosi" in 2010, "Horis Hirokrotima" in 2011 and
"Oso antehei i psihi" in 2012, while in may 2013 release her new book
which describes the life of the murderous Dada.
As she
declared, the first reader of her work is her polite husband, who reads them
every night, page by page, who's joking at her that she's lazy, the days of not
doing much writing.
Finally,
those who accuse that she writes soft books and Harlequin, Lena Manda answers
"I do not care if they say that Manda writes childish or writes Harlequin,
so much I've heard..." and continues "People write a lot to me and
say: "I had never keep a book in my
hands, and because of you I walked to the bookstore". If I'm a stepping
stone for people to love the internal process of reading, let them say whatever
they want."
The author
of the mad sales, a support mother, a good wife model, a self-made
professional, courteous, amazing, unique... Because Lena Manda foremost is... A
HUMAN!
...by
Odysseas Karamitros!
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