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Stephanos Stephanides
Stephanos Stephanides (22 October 1949) is a Cypriot-born author, poet, translator, critic, ethnographer, and documentary film maker. In 1957 he moved with his father to the United Kingdom and since then he has lived in several countries for more than 34 years.He returned to Cyprus in 1991 as part of the founding faculty of the University of Cyprus where he holds the position of Professor of English and Comparative Literature.〔http://www.hum.ucy.ac.cy/ENG/people/stephanides.htm〕 Stephanides’ dominant and literary language is English, and he is also fluent in Greek, Spanish and Portuguese. His early migration from Cyprus to the United Kingdom and subsequent work and travel in many countries has been influential in shaping the transcultural character of his work. As a young lecturer at the university of Guyana, he became deeply interested in Caribbean literary and cultural expression and his anthropological work with the descendant of Indian indentured labourers in Guyanese villages and sugar plantations marked the beginning of a lifelong interest in Indian culture and the Indian diaspora, His creative and academic writing span issues of cross-culturality, dislocation and migration. ''Hail Mother Kali'' deals with issues of a broken postcolonial society of racially mixed Indian and African descendants in Guyana. Stephanides also has a special interest in India and the Caribbean.
== Early life ==
Stephanides was born in Trikomo a village located in the North-east part of Cyprus. When he was eight years old, his father took him from Cyprus to the United Kingdom . Following his parents separation when he was still an infant, he lived with his grandparent in the village. He has warm memories of village life of that time that period, which was also marked by the emergence of the EOKA organization and the struggle against British Colonial Rule. His father settled in Bristol but Stephanides was left in Manchester for two years with his uncle's family. He subsequently went to school in Bristol. In his teenage years he developed a love for literature, writing poetry, and learning foreign languages when he was at school and was encouraged by his teachers to pursue literary studies at University. Stephanides graduated from Cardiff University, Wales in 1973, and obtained a PhD from the same University in 1981.
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