Rights Guide 2019-20 (Metaichmio Publications)

GREEK FICTION Thanasis Diamantopoulos is a Professor of Political Science at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. He has studied Law, Political Sciences and Classics and he has a DEA in Comparative Politics and a PhD in Political Sciences. He was also President of the Greek National Center of Public Administration. He has published more than 20 scientific books, numerous articles and two fiction titles. Christina Poulidou was born in 1958. She studied Law and became a lawyer, but later on she turned to journalism, focusing on European matters and foreign policy. She worked in numerous newspa- pers and radio stations. Since 2015, she is the Director of Konstantinos Simitis Foundation. 12 The judge (September 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK Summer of 2018: Α retired Supreme Court judge decides to relate his experiences and memories to a post- graduate student. From the German occupation, the Max Merten case and the Greek military junta, up to the political scandals of the early 90s, he has lived through decades of Greece’s history and state secrets. But he also has a terrible personal secret and an unhealed feeling of guilt… History and fiction intertwine in this original novel about both the best and the worst that humans are capable of. Here and there (May 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK This is the story of a family that escapes the 1822 Chios Massacre and tries to build a new life on the island of Syros, which through the years sees many refugees from all over the Mediterranean. This is a panoramic view of the rise and fall of a city and an island that became a crucible of many ethnic groups, and a study on how History’s millstones can grind the fates of a family. 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 numer- ous distinctions, he was awarded the Academy of Athens Novel Prize for his novel Morning calm (2018, Metaichmio Publications). I am all the things that I have forgotten (October 2019) A non-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. The reader also witnesses the execution of another close family member by the Nazis, as well as the mass execution of 116 people in just one morning in the main square. 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?