Anna Kouppanou is an educator, author, academic lecturer, and researcher with an active presence in education and children’s literature. She was Cyprus’s nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2022 and 2024. She coordinates the Reading Promotion Network of the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute and founded the Cyprus Children’s Conference on Literature and Reading Promotion, “What If We Broke the World a Little?”, which creates space for children to reflect, create, and engage in dialogue with literature. She studied Education (BEd) at the University of Cyprus and for an MA in Intercultural Education and Psychology at the same university. She completed her doctoral studies in Philosophy of Education at the UCL Institute of Education (University College London) and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Cyprus. She collaborates with universities in Cyprus and has an extensive research record on education, childhood studies, literacies, literature, and technology. Her most recent scholarly book is Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger (Routledge). Her work has received major distinctions, including the Cyprus State Literary Award for Books for Older Children and Young Adults (2005, 2015, 2025), the State Award for Young Adult Literature in Greece (2026), the First Prize of the Cyprus Association of Children’s and Young Adult Books (2001, 2015), and the Children’s Literature Award of O Anagnostis (2015). Her books appear on the IBBY Honour List (2018) and have been repeatedly shortlisted for major literary awards in Cyprus and Greece.