Adult’s Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2021

- 6 - - F I C T I O N - Maria Xilouri (b. 1983) is the author of three novels: Rewind (2009), How The World Ends (2012) and The Calligrapher’s Night-shift (2015). How The World Ends won the 2013 Athens Prize for Literature; The Calligrapher’s Night-shift was shortlisted for the 2017 EUPL. Her translations include David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (winner of the 2015 Hellenic American Union Translation Award), Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life , and Paul Auster’s 4321 . Stone Ships is her first book of short stories. Stone ships Maria Xilouri In certain places, people would surround graves with stones in the shape of ships to ferry the dead to the afterlife; these stone ships served as places of both ritual and remembrance. The stories of this book are stone ships themselves: stories of islands, whether literal or figurative, on seas fictional and real. Stories of those who die, and those who are left behind, remembering, in “A Nekyia in reverse”. Pages 168 March 2021 Christina Poulidou was born in 1958. She studied Law and became a lawyer, but later on she turned to journalism, focusing on European matters and foreign policy. She worked in numerous newspapers and radio stations. Since 2015, she is the Director of Konstantinos Simitis Foundation. This is her third novel. Without a compass Christina Poulidou A leftist’s newspaper’s staff face the first couple of decades of the 21st century and the unstable sociopolitical climate: the economic crisis, the pandemic, the changes in the EU, the Greek-Turkish relations, the refugees, all that affect the relations between. They will all have to evolve and adjust to the new circumstances through their interpersonal relations. A timely novel about human relationships in turbulent times. Pages 368 October 2021