Stealing Dad: Sofka Zinovieff in Conversation
Sofka Zinovieff discusses her novel Stealing Dad with Dr John Kittmer — a London story, largely Greek, drawn from her own father's funeral and the widow who barred his children from it.
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Sofka Zinovieff’s father died in 2021 and his widow did not allow Sofka or her siblings to attend the funeral. The novel that followed is fiction, and it starts there.
Stealing Dad takes place mainly in London and is populated by Greeks and half-Greeks, which is the territory Zinovieff has written from for years — she has lived in Athens, married into it, and made the distance between the two cities a recurring subject rather than a backdrop. She discusses the book with Dr John Kittmer, the former British Ambassador to Greece.
An Anglo-Hellenic League evening in the Council Room at King’s, on the Strand Campus. Half past six.