Alex Christofi

Alex Christofi is Publishing Director at Transworld Publishers and author of books published in twelve languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, the London Magazine and Prospect, and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. Dostoevsky in Love, his first work of non-fiction, was selected as a Times and Sunday Times literary non-fiction book of the year and shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. His latest book Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean, was shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize and the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award.