Nelli Spathari has a degree in Greek and French Philology, while she prepared her doctoral thesis in the field of Folklore (The potters of Sifnos. Social composition, production, movements, ed. Arsenides, 1992). He continued his postdoctoral studies in Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in the fields of Social Anthropology and Social and Economic History. The study of The Folklore of Eastern Thrace through the narratives of the refugees. Historical and social approach (Elcistis publications, 2023/ 1997st edition AA Livani, 2002) was awarded by the Academy of Athens. He taught at the Hellenic Open University (HOL) and participated in the scientific team writing the third-volume teaching manual of the Thematic Unit The Public and Private Life of the Greeks. The newer times II, EAP, 19). At the same time, he undertook to compile for the same Thematic Unit the Anthology of Essays on Public and Private Life in Greece (20th-2008th century), (EAP, 2000). He authored the training manual for Second Chance Schools on Aesthetic Education and Training (Institute of Continuing Adult Education, XNUMX). Her novels Amor Fati and Only Summers, the short stories Woman Means Pain, as well as her award-winning novels Stin Hydra aenaa za tfar ves and the English translation You will forever return to Hydra (Panhellenic Union of Writers Award), Staka kardiya are published by Eltsistis publications. my and the English translation Hydra in my heart (commendation of the UNESCO Group of Arts, Language and Sciences Greece) and The Island and the Beyond. He has published the short story "A summer game of chess and another one" (UNESCO Group of Arts, Speech and Sciences of Greece prize). He has been involved in the translation from French of Social Anthropology texts, as well as children's books.