Fall 2024 Fiction & Non fiction Rights Guide

- 1 8 - - F I C T I O N - Notable works: A Pledge of Marriage (2011) • 2012 Greek State Literature Prize, 2012 Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation Award by the Academy of Athens, 2011 Klepsidra Magazine Literary Award Older women (2015) • 2019 Anagnostis Magazine Literary Award SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 Anagnostis Magazine Literary Award CLICK HERE FOR A SAMPLE IN ENGLISH Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, two brothers will follow very different paths towards maturity. Two boys united by blood, feud and an undeclared war between them. Focusing on a different kind of civil war in post-war Greece, this is a unique coming of age novel, that delves deep into an era and a social class that are seldom analyzed like this in modern literature. Giorgos Sybardis was born in 1945. He studied Law and Film Directing at Athens and London. His debut in fiction came in 1987 with his critically acclaimed novella Medium . In 2013 he was awarded the C. P. Cavafy International Award for Literature. During a fight with his mother, 23-year-old Dionysis accidentally shoots himself. Half his face is damaged. Without a nose, mouth, cheeks, he has trouble eating and speaking, and he survives in the shadow of his parents. For a long time he lives on social media, until a doctor proposes a treatment: face transplant. Can a stranger’s face give you back your life? A unique novel that talks about bioethics, love, family, and relationships in the digital age. Katerina Malakate, born in 1978, is a pharmacist. She runs the book blog diavazontas.blog- spot.com and the facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/diavazontas. She is the owner of the book-café Booktalks where she hosts book presentations, two book clubs and creative writing classes. She has an MBA in Creative Writing and she is the Vice President of Pen Greece. This is her third novel. In a small village called Adelfiko, two people are about to meet: George Melissinos, a surgeon trying to come to terms with losing a patient; and Maro, copy editor and single mother, returning to her ancestral home after her city apartment was destroyed in a fire. This is a novel about places, memories, regrets, with a 90’s nostalgic atmosphere. Vasia Tzanakari was born in 1980. She studied English in Thessaloniki and has a Master in Translation. Her first work, Eleven little murders: Stories inspired by Nick Cave’s songs (also published by Metaichmio) was nominated for the Newcomer writer award by Diavazo literary magazine. Her translation of A room of one’s own by Virginia Woolf won the Award of the Greek Literary Translators Society. Pages 312 October 2018 Pages 328 October 2020 Pages 272 September 2020 Brothers Giorgos Sybardis Faceless Katerina Malakate Adelfiko Vasia Tzanakari