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Sofka Zinovieff
(born 1961) is a British author and journalist.
Early life
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Zinovieff was born in London. Her parents were
Peter Zinovieff
and Victoria Gala Heber-Percy. Her paternal grandparents were
White Russians
who had left
Soviet Russia
for the United Kingdom shortly after the
October Revolution
. Zinovieff would later write a biography of her grandmother,
Sofka Skipwith
. Her maternal grandfather was the noted eccentric aristocrat
Robert Heber-Percy
, whose property, including the
Faringdon House
estate in
Oxfordshire
, she inherited at the age of 25; through him she is a descendant of
Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley
, of the family of the
Dukes of Northumberland
.
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She grew up in
Putney
in south-west London, where her father was founder of Britain's first synthesizer manufacturer,
Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd
. She studied social anthropology at
Cambridge University
. Later she gained a PhD after living and carrying out research in the
Peloponnese
.
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Career
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Zinovieff has worked as a journalist and book reviewer for various British publications. She has written several books, from memoirs and biographies to novels.
Works
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Personal life
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Sofka Zinovieff has lived and worked in Russia, Italy, and, for many years, in Greece. She and her Greek husband Vassilis Papadimitriou live between
Athens
and London. They have two daughters.
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