Foteini Tomai

Fotini Tomai was born in Athens in 1953. She studied History and Archaeology at the Universities of Athens and Birmingham. Her publications have been featured in Greek, English, and Bulgarian archaeological journals. She also contributes articles to the Athenian daily and periodical press. As a researcher at the National Research Foundation until 1982, she served as the Press and Cultural Affairs Attaché at the Greek Embassy in Sofia. In 1984, she was appointed to the Central Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she has been directing the Diplomatic and Historical Archive Service since 1996. Under her supervision, collections of diplomatic documents have been published, which she has been invited to present at foreign universities and international conferences with related content. She made her debut in Greek literature with the novellas "The Platter and Other Fragile Things" (1999). "Paradise Street Closed" (2001) was her first novel. She is the mother of two daughters, Marietta and Eleni.