Adult’s Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2021

- 3 - - F I C T I O N - I am what I have forgotten Elias Maglinis An auto-fiction novel on how emotional trauma, individual and collective, transcends generations, and also on how history invades personal lives and families, altering them forever. At its core is the relationship between the author and his father. At the age of 15 the latter saw his own father being assassinated in 1944, in the context of the Greek Civil War. The reader also witnesses the execution of another close family member by the Nazis, as well as the mass execution of 116 people in just one morning in the main square. This is a narrative about loss and about memory – or rather oblivion: we really are what we have forgotten; memory is just a series of small islands in an ocean of oblivion. We may be haunted by these islands but the self seems to be this ocean of forgetfulness. Or is it? Elias Maglinis was born in 1970 in Kinshasa, Congo (DRC). He studied English Literature and Politics in England and Scotland. He worked as an editor of Diavazo literary magazine from 1994 to 2004 and currently holds the position of chief editor for the cultural section of the Sunday edition of Kathimerini newspaper. He has translated works by Ernest Hemingway, Artemis Cooper, David Plante. Among numerous distinctions, he was awarded the Academy of Athens Novel Prize for his novel Morning calm (2018, Metaichmio Publications). 2020 STATE LITERATURE PRIZE Pages 256 October 2019 BEST SELLER