The journalistic world and especially his family cultural reporting he bids her farewell to the sorrow of the world Sofia Taranto who breathed her last after a long and brave battle with cancer. He was 69 years old.
As stated in the announcement of its Board of Directors ESIEASophia Tarantou graduated from the Department of History and Archeology of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens and was multilingual as she spoke English, French, Italian and German.
And if the archaeologywhich she served alongside her distinguished professor emeritus and her loving husband, Giorgos Korresher one great love, the second was journalism to which she devoted herself with passion. Her journalistic journey ran parallel to the long and important history of the newspaper “ETHNOS”, where she worked from 1981 to 2015, first as cultural editor and then as head of the cultural department.
At the same time, she was in charge of the Press Office of the Ministry of Culture and a consultant to the late Ministers of Culture, i.e. Melina Merkouri and Thanos Mikroutsikou.
Throughout the time, Sofía Tarantou was a dynamic, intelligent woman with deep education and culture, who served civilization from different positions because she deeply believed in her value, her power and the positive influence she has on people .
It was also deep animal loverwith an active role in the protection and care of animals, especially stray animals, which he tirelessly cared for over the years. For that reason, her friends and colleagues, instead of wreaths, chose to support SZoophiles of Agia Paraskev. (Donations – subscription account: IBAN: GR3802602340000440201397901).
The last goodbye in Sophia de Taranto say on Thursday, at 14.00, at the Holy Church of the Transfiguration Sotiros in Chaladri.
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The day before yesterday he asked to see me, he had an intuition that he would go, said his brother Dimitris Imellos