DELINA VASILIADI
Delina Vasiliadi (Pen name of Despoina Vasileiadou) was born, lives and works in Greece. She is married to Dimitris Siomos and they have a daughter, Myrtali.
Her love for arts, books, painting and writing became apparent at an extremely young age. She studied painting next to her mother Lizetta Vasiliadi and Stelios Mavromatis – both very famous Greek painters-, was then accepted through national exams at an ExperimentalFine Arts School for Children and participated at the tv-show “Young Painters”.
Delina studied Economics, Finance and Accounting with a full scholarship (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) and was the Valedictorian of her graduation year. She, also, studied Stage and Film Acting and Directing (Parathlasi Drama School, New York Film Academy) and took several classes, seminars and master classes in theater and film.
For years she worked at the financial sector, but now she is fully devoted to the arts. She has been writing theatrical reviews and articles about the theatre for years (Exostis, likewoman.gr, blogs and film noir), illustrated the fairytale “The miser” for the book “Storytellers and Painters”, acted in video-art projects, documentaries and films (both short and feature films) in Greece and abroad and worked for the National Theatre of Northern Greece as Assistant Director and Director.
Delina has exhibited solo several times in Greece and abroad. She participated in a group art show at ARGO gallery in Athens in collaboration with the “Doctors without Borders” and in 2014 she was selected to exhibit her artwork under the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Luxembourg at the European Commission and then in Brussels, again, at the European Commission.
Some of Delina’s fairytales have been presented on the radio in Greece and abroad, several of her stories have been published in literary magazines and many of her paintings were included in art books and are now in several private and public collections (Europe, U.S.A.)
Six of her books, three children’s books and three plays, have been published, while soon two more plays, “Paper Fates” (Kapa Publishing House) and “Lullaby” (Anemoessa Publishing House-collective volume), as well as three children’s books (Michalis Sideris Publishing House), will also be published.
In winter 2020 her play “Passage” will be presented on the Hephaestus radio (Austria).
Delina has won several very important literary awards and is a permanent member of the Greek Authors’ Association and the Hellenic Literary Society.
In 2020 she became the 74th member of “The Greek Play Project”.
Publications:
2020 “Homemade Paradise” (play) Kapa Publishing House
2019 “Playing with Alice” (play) Kapa Publishing House
2019 “Romi and Miranda” (children’s book) Michalis Sideris Publishing House
2018 “Passage” (play) Kapa Publishing House
2018 “The lost colors of the rainbow” (children’s book) Michalis Sideris Publishing House
2018 “The pacifier fairy” (children’s book) Anima Publishing House
Literary awards:
PLAYS:
“Playing with Alice”:
- 2018 First Prize_Greek Authors’ Association
- 2018 Commendation_Panhellenic Authors’ Association
- 2020 First Prize_literary magazine Kefalos (“Book-Play of the year 2019”)
- 2020 the play was included at the “Books of the year 2019” list_Hellenic Cultural Association of Greek Cypriots
“Passage”:
- 2017 Prize_Greek Authors’ Association
- 2020 First Prize-literary magazine Kefalos (“Book-Play of the year 2018”)
FAIRY TALES:
“The lost colors of the rainbow”:
- 2020 First Prize_literary magazine Kefalos (“Book-Children’s Book of the year 2017”)
“Romi and Miranda”:
- 2020 the play was included at the “Books of the year 2019” list_Hellenic Cultural Association of Greek Cypriots
“The boy that didn’t fit” (fairytale):
- 2019 First Prize_Club Unesco(Greece)
- 2019 Second Prize_ Hellenic Cultural Association of Greek Cypriots
“The girl that fed the birds” (fairytale):
- 2018 Second Prize_Club Unesco(Greece)
“Adventure on the Island of the Fairies” (fairytale with rhyme):
- 2019 Third Prize_Writers’ Union of Northern Greece
- 2019 Commendation_Keratsini Science, culture & arts company
“The little star” (fairytale):
- 2018 Commendation_Club Unesco(Greece)
“The guardian of lost dreams” (fairytale):
- 2018 Third Prize_Keratsini Science, culture & arts company
“The pacifier fairy”:
- 2017 Prize_Anima Publishing House
POETRY:
- 2005 Prize_Arts and Letters Piraeus Society
Painting Exhibitions:
- 2016 Thessaloniki, Greece, Lola Nikolaou Art Gallery, Red
- 2015 Thessaloniki, Greece, Lola Nikolaou Art Gallery, Action Reaction
- 2014 Brussels, Belgium, European Commission, Thesis-Antithesis II
- 2014 Luxembourg, Jean Monnet building, European Commission, Under the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Thesis-Antithesis, ODES
- 2008 Thessaloniki, Greece, Former Archaeological Museum, Sponsored by the Mayor, the Council and the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Reflections II
- 2007 Syros, Greece, National Galleryof Kyklades, Sponsored by the Mayor, the Council and the Municipality of Hermoupolis, Hermoupolia Art Festival 2007, Reflections
- 2007 Thessaloniki, Greece, Psychiatric Medical Center, Visions
- 2006 Athens, Greece, ARGO” Gallery “, Amphisimies
- 2005 Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki Architecture Center, Sponsored by the Mayor, the Council and the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Almost the other sight