Kira Sinou, a restless writer and translator, is one of the most prominent contemporary Greek authors of children's' literature. Her life looks a bit like a fairy-tale. She was born in 1923 in Rostove, Russia. Her father was Greek and her mother Russian. When she was nine years old, she came to Greece and she stayed at first in Athens and then in Thessaloniki, where she spent almost three decades. There, she studied at the German School and at the State School of Tourist Guides. When she first came to Greece, she could hardly speak any Greek at all, but after a while she learned the language so well that many of her short stories were published in the children's magazine "Diaplasis ton pedon", directed and published by the famous Greek author Grigorios Xenopoulos. Kira Sinou has been professionally involved into the translation of German, French, English and Russian literature. She started writing her own books for children and young people in the mid 70's. Since then she has been involved almost exclusively in the creative children's literature, as well as in the translation of selected novels from the international children's literature. She chooses her subjects on the one hand from prehistoric times and paleontology and on the other hand from modern life and history. In this way, she offers to the children the image of a world unified within time, the past, the present and the future.

In her earliest novels she wrote about mammoths and dinosaurs, because as the once confessed: "Prehistoric people and prehistoric animals have played an important role in my life. I still remember my father showing to me in a book a picture of some prehistoric men dressed in skins fighting a cave bear. It is widely known that the memories from our childhood leave their prints deeply in our inner world. So, when I decided to write my first books, I went back to those memories to find out what to write about…" Kira Sinou is also one of the few Greek writers who have paid a special attention to science fiction and mystery books, that is to a category of books with reference to the space, to fantastic stories, to paleontology and ecology. Nevertheless, in Kira Sinou's writings, an extended discussion takes place concerning the great social problems of our time, like divorce, the family relations, the drugs, the overpopulation etc. Her novels are mostly addressed to elder children and teenagers. Her writings have an interesting plot, action, motion and a certain mystery. Her contribution to the literary world is considerable. Her work is distinguished into two kinds: translations and original. She has translated over 100 books of classical literature, such as Tolstoi, Dostoievski, Gogol, Soljenitzin, Erich Keastner, Michael Ende and Patricia Washington among others. She has written 29 books for children that are constantly making new republications, as she gains the admiration of a large readership among children.