Pontus’ Fairies and Superheroes (e-book)

Aggeliki Pamboukidou was born in Linden, Germany, but grew up in Thessaloniki. Her origins lies in Kilkis (place of settlement of her refugee grandparents, who were from Heroana and Pontus) and Karditsa.

She studied Greek Philology at AUTh, specialising in Linguistics and she is fluent in three foreign languages. Until 1996 she worked in private education while since 2011, she has been working in Secondary Education of the Greek Public School System as substitute teacher.

In 1992, she wrote and directed the theatre play “Here Greece” and in 1995 she wrote and directed the ethnographic comedy “Marriage”, which was written and performed in the Pontiac Dialect. Since 2003 she has ben active in the field of lyric songwriting for Pontiac Discographic Selections, with her two leading discographic works being “Let Heaven be the Sky” and “Metaksozygiston”. In 2018 she wrote the historical novel “The Fairies of Pontus”, which is in it’s 3rd edition since it’s publication. In 2019 her book was also adapted as a theatre play.

She is married to Thodoris Kotidis, a musician who serves the “muse of Pontus” with his Lyre and singing. They have three daughters together, Anthi, Anastasia and Alexia, and a son, Leonidas. They currently reside in Meteora, Thessaloniki.