Andriana Ierodiaconou Author

Andriana Ierodiaconou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1952, and grew up bilingual in Greek and English. She is a graduate of The English School, Nicosia and St. Hugh's College, Oxford where she obtained a degree in Biochemistry. From 1980 to 1989 she worked as a freelance foreign correspondent in Athens, covering Greek and Cypriot affairs for The Financial Times of London, the BBC Greek Service and other media, before serving for one year as Special Adviser on Communications to the President of Cyprus. In parallel she pursued a vocation as a poet and occasional short story writer; her work has been published extensively in literary magazines in Cyprus and internationally. She has been living in France with her husband and son and writing full-time since 1994. Margarita's HusbandA" is her first novel.