Foreign Rights Guide 2020-2021

GREEK FICTION Konstantinos Tzamiotis was born in 1970. A novelist, short story writer and playwright, he studied Film, and has worked in television, advertising and cinema. He has been the editor of Highlights , a culture magazine, for several years. His first play, No man’s land , won the State Prize for new playwrights. He represented Greece with that same play in the European Anthology of Plays of the Salvatore Quasimodo Institute. Sophia Nikolaidou was born in 1968 and studied Classical Philosophy. She has written nov- els, short stories and studies. She is a translator, a secondary education teacher and a creative writing tutor in the post-graduate program of Aristotle University. Since 2001 she writes book reviews for the newspaper TA NEA . Her short stories have been translated into eight languages. Mariza Koch was born in 1944. She is a famous Greek folk music singer, with a music career that spans five decades and includes more than twenty albums. But she also has a moving personal tale to tell. Santorini’s blonde little girl (2018) In her memoir Santorini’s blonde little girl she describes how she grew up in the island of Santorini during the difficult years after World War II – an experience that was complicated by her German heritage evident in her blond hair, and the mystery of that heritage, that lasted for fifty years. All the experiences that shaped her as a person and musician, photos of the era from her personal archive, a colorful writing style and a unique message of love against prejudice. Notable works: The Meeting , novel (2002) / Italy: Effigie edizioni The Crossing , novel (2016) • 2016 Athens Prize for Literature / Rights sold to France: Actes Sud Maybe next time , novel (2017) For rights inquiries, please contact Ms Katerina Fragkou of Iris Literary Agency. Notable works: So Far So Good: A chronicle of my breast cancer , non fiction (2015) • 2016 State Prize Tonight all friends are gone , novel (2010) • 2011 Athens Prize for Literature / Israel: Keter Books Scapegoat , novel (2012) / USA: Melville House This battle is mine , novel (2017) BEST SELLER 36 Nicos Panayotopoulos (born 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. He was shortlisted for the State Novel Award for his novel Icon (Germany: Reclam, France: Gallimard), and was awarded the Academy of Athens Novel Award for Children of Cain (Poland: Książkowe Klimaty). Restless limbs , (2020) In this collection of ten short stories, the writer shines the light on the dark corners of love and passion. To whom hell belongs (November 2019)