Rights Guide 2019-20 (Metaichmio Publications)

Stefanos Tsitsopoulos was born in 1964. He studied Law in Thessaloniki and Communications in London. He is a journalist and a radio producer. Rock star (October 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK A metropolitan story with heroes that drive fast cars, listen to loud music, go from concert to concert, fall in love with the girls on the album covers and search for their one and true love. An autofiction testimony, a journal of millions of flight miles, from Thessaloniki and Athens to J.D. Salinger’s New York. This book is an homage to J.D. Salinger’s A catcher in the rye. GREEK FICTION 14 Giorgos Sybardis was born in 1945. He studied Law and Film Directing at Athens and London. His debut in fiction came in 1987 with his critically acclaimed novella Medium . In 2013 he was awarded the C. P. Cavafy International Award for Literature. Notable works: A Pledge of Marriage , novel (2011) • 2012 State Novel Award, 2012 Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation Award by the Academy of Athens, 2011 Klepsidra Magazine Literary Award Older women , novella (2015) Brothers (2018) • 2019 Anagnostis Magazine Literary Award Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, two brothers will follow very different paths towards maturity. Two boys united by blood, feud and an undeclared war between them. Focusing on a different kind of civil war in post-war Greece, this is a unique coming of age novel, that delves deep into an era and a social class that are seldom analyzed like this in modern literature. Kostas Katsoularis was born in 1968. He studied Finance, Film and Literature. He has pub- lished seven novels and numerous short stories. His novella The man who loved my wife has been translated into Turkish, his novella Dead dog at midnight into English, Spanish and Hebrew. His short story collection Night electricity was awarded the 2015 Petros Harris Foundation by the Academy of Athens. A copper heart (2018) ABOUT THE BOOK Athens, 2013. Amid the economic crisis and the social unrest, a high school teacher becomes overly upset with his most charismatic student's failure to attend school. Teacher and student had a unique relationship based on their mutual love for Homer’s Iliad and their shared view of the world, and he seems to be the only one concerned about the kid’s disappearance. Where does personal trauma end and collective trauma start?