She was born in Minsk, Belarus, where she began her musical studies at a very young age. At the age of 10, she received her first prize in the Belarusian competition for young musicians, performing works on cimbel. [1 ]
In this novel Athanasiadis describes the way Greeks lived in Anatolia by the example of the small community of Salihli. Probably the title is inspired by the myth of Niobe.