Margarita Karapanou (1946-2008), daughter of writer Margarita Liberaki and poet Giorgos Karapanou, was born in Athens. She lived between Greece and Paris. Kassandra and the Wolf, Sleepwalker and Rien ne va plus were published in Greece, France, England, the USA, Sweden, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. The former received worldwide praise from critics and writers like Jean-Pierre Faye, John Updike, and Jerome Charyn. In 1988, The sleepwalker, was honored in Paris with the “Best Foreign Book Prize”.