- 1 - PUBLICATIONS FICTION & NON FICTION RIGHTS GUIDE FALL 2026
- 2 - METAICHMIO Publications was established in 1993 and today is one of the most important publishing houses in Greece. We publish more than 260 titles each year across all genres, about half of which are fiction and non-fiction, science and humanities titles, translated & Greek original works both. Our list includes many multi-awarded Greek authors and illustrators. Over the years, our original titles (children’s and adults’) and our acclaimed writers and illustrators have been awarded among others with the following distinctions: • The Greek State Prize (for Adult and Children’s Literature) • Academy of Athens Awards for Fiction • IBBY awards and nominations • Mentions in the White Raven Catalogue of the International Children’s Library of Munich • Nominations for the Hans Christian Andersen Illustration Award • “Public” Book Awards • Literary Awards by Anagnostis / Dekata / Klepsidra magazines We have established fruitful relationships with some of the most important contemporary Greek authors and the most promising new Greek writers. Herewith follows a selection of recent fiction and non-fiction titles. PROFILE
- 3 - Lebanon often dominates international headlines, and always for the wrong reasons: massacres and bombings, kidnappings and hijackings, financial collapse and explosions. Given everything the land of the cedars has been through over the past fifty years, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Lebanon has nine lives, like a cat. So how do we explain this paradox — a country with such a bleak image that still draws so much attention and so much affection? It's a question I've asked myself ever since I spent five intense years in Beirut, where I fell in love with the country, and above all, with its people. How did the fifteen-year civil war begin? Why does the country's political system still rest on an archaic framework of eighteen officially recognized religions? What role do the Greek Orthodox play? What is Hezbollah — and what isn't it? Who killed billionaire prime minister Rafic Hariri? What exactly is a "pleasure marriage"? Could Lebanon and Israel ever reconcile? And what's the geopolitical story behind Lebanese cuisine? -NON FICTION- Lebanon: A Unique Country Dimitris Kourkoulas Pages 160
- 4 - Locals and foreigners, year-round residents and passing visitors, young faces and old, cross paths under the same sky in different corners of the country. What ties together this multi-voiced human landscape is a bittersweet, sarcastic tone — sometimes blunt, sometimes only hinted at — that reveals the deeper stakes behind the events. Through a patchwork of stories scattered across the land, The Reapers search for the ingredients that make up our collective experience of the Greek summer: the anticipation, the letdown, the tension, and that restless longing for the summer we're always waiting to come back. Two people are together, and then they're not. A breakup in Athens sets off two separate journeys out into the world. And yet, whatever they do, they remain bound to each other in the imagination. They live inside one another; each belongs to the other. Without meaning to, they still read everything through the lens of the relationship, living and breathing in a here-and-now that has nothing to do with the before. And yet everything looks so much the same. Moving between different places, the characters come face to face with loss, changing with every moment without even realizing it. Fotis Manikas writes straight onto his characters' nerve endings. With a careful, and at times dizzying, third-person narration, he pushes right up to the edge to explore how "two" happens when it is "one," and how "one" becomes "two." The Reapers There wasn’t a more convincing argument that they were a couple than the way they looked up at the sky Zacharias Mavroidis Fotis Manikas Pages 264 Pages 296 -FICTION-
- 5 - Humans-saplings that try to stand upright against the livelong duration of opposing winds. Men who come face to face with insecurity, vanity and loss. Women who live with loneliness and despair and others who pursue utopia. Overprotective mothers and others who are awkward or self-absorbed. Tender, lovey-dovey grandmothers and others who are somehow misunderstood. Sons and daughters who suffer the consequences of parental behaviour or who try to escape using understanding and forgiveness. Nineteen stories that span some thirty years or more, each written in a different style, language and structure. With the comic or surrealistic element alternating with the dramatic and sometimes with emotion. Nasos Lyras, of Greek origin and a retired “luxury” Gastarbeiter in Munich, unravels a tangle of thoughts and memories from Greece and Germany that lead him to recall what he calls “forgotten words.” These come from the depths of time, always in his mother tongue, which he has stopped using so as not to be reminded of a well-hidden past self. Where will this end of the thread lead, and how will this story end up being more than just a secret diary? A story of the undoing of an expatriate Greek in present-day Germany, by one of the most important contemporary writers of recent years. Chewing gum for travel Forgotten Words Makis Tsitas Alexis Panselinos Pages 152 Pages 224 -FICTION- 2014 EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE for the book God is my witness.
- 6 - A name meaning fighter of men, or fighting like men. Andromache, Hector’s wife, is aptly named. After Achilles killed her husband, Neoptolemus killed her son by throwing him from the city walls and then took her back to Greece as a concubine, where she later gave birth to two of his sons. After Neoptolemus’ death, she married Helenus, Hector’s brother, and became Queen of Epirus. A life defined by men, good and bad alike. This is the tragic story of a woman, wife and queen, who stood on the ashes of Troy and found herself having to love what she should wholeheartedly despise. This is the story of Our Children, the children who grew up locked in their rooms. They listen to music with headphones, compose beats on their computers, and spit bars in their notebooks. Their friends are their family, and they live their lives online. This is the story of our generation, who believed we would be better than our parents. And now we see our children growing up, making their mistakes, moving forward. This is a story about a rap band, about dreams that take revenge, about children saved by music. Our children Andromache Sophia Nikolaidou Kostas Akrivos -FICTION- Pages 352 Pages 264 2025 Academy of Athens Best Fiction Book Award
- 7 - A missing sister. A serial killer. A town that will do anything to protect its secrets. When Nikol, a young woodcarver, returns to her hometown of Komotini for her father's memorial, she has no way of knowing the visit will end with her younger sister's disappearance. As a haunted local detective joins the search, what begins as a missing-person case spirals into the hunt for a serial killer, dragging decades of guilt, corruption and buried lies out into the open. Already a sensation on Netflix Greece, Save Me has become Greek Noir's first true international breakout, now streaming via Viaplay across the UK, US, Poland and Germany. Critics have been unanimous in their praise: four-star reviews from The Killing Times and Age of the Geek in the UK, glowing features across Poland ( ELLE Poland, Dziennik.pl) and Germany ( Klamm), and recognition throughout the US and international press as one of the standout titles driving the rise of Greek Noir. Save me Dimitris Simos Pages 384 Stories from the Waiting Room is drawn from material gathered through one-on-one interviews with women who have had, or are still living with, some form of cancer. Each of these women — like each of us — faces illness in her own way, and there are as many ways of coping as there are people. On these pages you'll find fear, hope, anguish, the need to connect, the urge to withdraw, and the forming of a community. And because one thing is certain — when you're ill, you spend a lot of time in waiting rooms — we've also included activities to encourage you to express yourself creatively: writing, drawing, marking up the comic and making it your own. Stories from the Waiting Room: A Comic About Women with Cancer Eyes of Light, Georgia Zachari Pages 136 -FICTION-
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