Fiction & Non Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2022

- 7 - Makis Tsitas (b. 1971) majored in journalism and worked for several radio stations. He has served as senior editor for the literary magazine Periplous, and was the co-publisher and director of the book journal Index . From 2012 to the present he has been directing Diastixo.gr, a website on books and culture. His literary works have been translated into 12 languages. His novel God Is My Witness earned him the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature. - F I C T I O N - Pages 80 March 2020 God is my witness Five stops It is the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and Chrysovalantis -a chronically unsuccessful but enthusiastic employee of the publishing industry- has been put out of work yet again. He begins a vitriolic monologue, taking aim at his many persecutors. An ageing relic of a bygone era, hounded by the challenges of a fast-changing city, he nonetheless sees the irony of his plight. Vice-ridden yet God- fearing, this repentant anti-hero will set his record straight once and for all. And God is his witness. The monologue of a woman who lived thirty years of her life moving between the safety of the same five bus stops: from home to work and back again. Tasoula had her whole life ahead of her, but Theofilos’ love closed all of the doors. Yet she found ways to open windows: She studied, she worked, she raised two kids all on her own, while Theofilos was absent for the important things and always cruel to everyone. A story written with love about the countless women who could have led a better life but followed the sense of duty, consciously paying the price. Pages 280 January 2020 2014 EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Translated into 11 languages