Fall 2024 Fiction & Non fiction Rights Guide

- 1 0 - - F I C T I O N - Oil on canvas Dog tales Popular Greek songs It’s the summer of 1966. Spyros, a student at the School of Fine Arts, spends his vacation on a Greek island, hosted by a local painter. This summer is a turning point, not only for him but for the family that hosts him. A little bit later, April of 1967 will change everything. Spyros’ story is the story of a whole generation. Pages 312 February 2024 Notable works: Zaida, or The Camel in the Snow (1997, 2011) | Translated into French, Italian and German The great procession (1999, 2013) • Greek State Literature Prize | Translated into French and Italian Dark inscriptions (2011) • Diavazo Magazine Literary Award | Translated into Polish Alexis Panselinos (born 1943) is one of the most prominent Greek authors. He studied Law at the University of Athens and worked as a lawyer up until 1997. He debuted in 1982 with the short story collection Stories with Dogs . In 1997 he was the Greek can- didate for the European Literary Award (Aristeion) with his third novel, Zaida or The Camel in the Snow . He has also translated novels from English and German. Doomed love affairs, political conspiracies, popular songs, executions and pageants: The streets of 1950s Athens come alive in this fictional tapestry of an era during which the wounded post-war Greece tries to recover from the German occupation and the Civil War that followed. A unique story, mixing facts with fiction, from one of the most prominent Greek authors today. “The Disappearance”, “The Myths”, “Betsy Lost”, and “Summer Cinema” : four stories in the intersections of human adventure, love, loneliness, and the loss of youth. Their style is profoundly poetic and scandalously humorous, combining the realism of traditional prose with dream like fantasy. 2019 KOSTAS AND ELENI OURANI FOUNDATION AWARD BY THE ACADEMY OF ATHENS October 2022 Pages 328 March 2018