ngeliki Varella was born in Thessaloniki in 1930 and was raised in Athens. She has a degree in History and Archeology from the University of Athens. She has been awarded by the Women's Literary Company, the Greek Children's Book Circle and the Ministry of Education for her "Learning to read" series of books for the preliminary classes. She has translated many foreign books and worked in the educational section of many radio and t.v. Stations and for many magazines.     In 1985, her book "My friend, the Filbert-tree" was among the three books that won the International Award of Children's Fiction -Janusz Korczak- in Poland. In 1990 she was nominated for the H. C. Andersen Award. In 1998 she was honoured with the National Award of Children's Non-Fiction for her book "Corinth".