Authors

Amanda Michalopoulou (born 1966, Athens) is one of Greece’s most highly acclaimed writers. She has published seven novels, three short story collections and a successful series of children’s books, all to great critical acclaim.  She is the recipient of the country’s most prestigious literary awards, including the Revmata Prize, the Diavazo Award, and the Athens Academy Prize. 

Kostas Katsoularis was born in Arta, Greece in 1968. He studied in Athens, Salonica and Paris. He is the author of three novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. His short story, “The shoes and the Trousers”, from his collection Mikros Daktylios (2007), was included in ATHEN. Eine Literarische Einladung, published by Wagenbach in 2008…

Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has written two collections of short stories: The Woman on the Rails, (2003), and Something will Happen, You’ll See, (2010), which has won the prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award and became the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. Something will Happen, you’ll See has been translated into Italian (Editori Riuniti, 2012)…

Kallia Papadaki was born in Didymoteicho in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied economics at Bard College and Brandeis University in the USA and film at Stavrakos’ Film School in Greece. Her critically-acclaimed short-story collection The Back-Lot Sound (2009) won the Diavazo Journal New Writers Award. Her second book, Lavender in December (2011), was a poetry collection. Her third book, Dendrites (2015), was awarded the European Prize for Literature 2017.