Fiction & Non Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2022

- 9 - Restless limbs What could possible be the connection between dying love affairs and space travel? Or between breaking ups and cigarettes, Foucault’s Pendulum and physical attraction, chess and low libido, or even baseball and desire? In this collection of ten short stories, the writer shines a light on the dark corners of love and passion. - F I C T I O N - Pages 264 November 2020 Pages 328 February 2022 Hagiography Summer of 1940: A whole village turns against and lynches its own “patron saint”, the famous monk John Orphanos, famous for his miraculous deeds. During the night, as he lays bleeding, Orphanos manages to give his confession to an 18-year old boy – the same boy whom, the next day, the whole village will accuse of killing its “saint”. More than sixty years later, as the church gathers evidence for Orphanos’ canonization, the “killer” decides to break his silence. A book about humanity’s need to find saints, and having done that, to then bring them down. Notable works: The gene of doubt (1999, 2012) | Translated into 7 languages Hagiography (2003, 2022) • Shortlisted for the State Literature Prize | Translated into German and French Children of Cain (2011) • Academy of Athens Novel Award | Translated into Polish Nicos Panayotopoulos (b. 1963) is an acclaimed screenwriter and novelist. He studied engineering, but switched to writing novels and screenplays in the early 1990s. He has written screenplays for short films, TV series and feature films.