Fiction & Non Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2022

- 5 - - F I C T I O N - 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 , the Anagnostis and Klepsidra Magazines Literary Awards for his novel Morning calm (2018, Metaichmio Publications). Pages 256 October 2019 Rights sold: Albania I am all I have forgotten BEST SELLER The only journey of their lives Nikos Maglinis, the author’s grandfather, whose story is told in “I am all I have forgotten”, took part in the 1922 Asia Minor military campaign that ended in unspeakable tragedy. After years of research, now the author endeavors to reconstruct a journey of death and hope, travelling to Smyrna, Eskisehir, Afyonkarahisar, Bursa. A journey made by thousands a century ago, to kill and be killed. Travelogue, confession, documentary, historical research; the book includes archival documents and photos, in counterpoint to recent photos took a century later by the author himself. Pages 384 June 2022 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. 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? 2020 STATE LITERATURE PRIZE 2020 “Public” Fiction Award CLICK HERE FOR A SAMPLE IN ENGLISH