Eyfrosyni Manta - Lazarou

Euphrosyne Manta-Lazarou was born in Dali (Nicosia, Cyprus) in 1955. She studied Greek Philology at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens. She served in Secondary Education. From 1995 to 2003, she worked on secondment at the Educational Psychology Service of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, coordinating programs to address functional illiteracy, early school leaving, and delinquency. From 2003 to 2011, she worked at the Faneromeni schools within the walled city of Nicosia, designing and coordinating programs to ensure the continuation of education for the children of economic migrants and for Cypriot students living in disadvantaged areas of the city center. She has published five poetry books and two prose works. Her works have been translated into Italian and Serbian. Her writings have appeared in the magazines Entefktirio, Mandragoras, Paremvasi, Farfoulas, as well as in the Cypriot magazines Anef, Nea Epohi, and In Focus.