Rights Guide 2019-20 (Metaichmio Publications)

13 GREEK FICTION Alexis Panselinos (born 1943) is one of the most prominent Greek authors. He studied Law at the University of Athens and worked as a lawyer up until 1997. He debuted in 1982 with the short story collection Stories with Dogs . In 1997 he was the Greek candidate for the European Literary Award (Aristeion) with his third novel, Zaida or The Camel in the Snow . He has also translated novels from English and German. Loukia Dervi was born in 1972. She studied Hotel Management in Switzerland. She has published two short stories collections, a novelette and a novel. Her stories have been translated into English, French, Swedish, Polish, and Romanian. Eleftheria Kirimi was born in 1968. She grew up in Piraeus, where she lives and works to this day. She studied History and Archaeology and has post-graduate studies in Modern History. Notable works: The great procession , novel (1999, 2013) • Second Place for State Literature Prize France: Griot, Italy: Crocetti Dark inscriptions , novel (2011) • Diavazo Magazine Literature Award Poland: Kziazkowe Klimaty Zaida , or The Camel in the Snow , novel (1997, 2011) France: Gallimard, Italy: Crocetti, Germany: Berlin Verlag The hidden door , novel (2016) • Shortlisted for the 2017 Anagnostis Novel Award Ballet nights , novel (1995, 2016) Popular Greek Songs is his latest work. Doomed love affairs, political conspiracies, popular songs, executions and pageants: The streets of 1950s Athens come alive in this fictional tapestry of an era during which the wounded post-war Greece tries to recover from the German occupation and the Civil War that followed. A unique story mixing facts with fiction, from one of the most prominent Greek authors today. Sea on snow (February 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK A story about the past and the present, about personal trauma meeting the collective one. A woman who’s fighting with her own demons, looking for healing through forgiveness, and a group of children who dig through the pain of the past, not looking for revenge, but for understanding. A view of Acropolis (October 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK Behind the bright façade of Athens Excelsior hotel on Syntagma Square tolls a busy beehive of workers that live and work away from the clients’ gaze, in offices, basements and corridors. Set in the early ’90s, a long-gone era of luxury and opulence, this novel brings to life the most emblematic hotel of Athens. Through a choreography of eponymous clients and anonymous workers, people change clothes like actors when their part ends and return to a very different everyday life. BEST SELLER