Greek Books in Translation 2013-2015

75$16/$7,21&29(5SGI 1 GREEK BOOKS IN TRANSLATION 2013-2015 2 HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR CULTURE Latest transLated pubLications this catalogue includes the majority of Greek literary works translated and published into foreign languages during the last two years, giving an 3 insight into current Greek literary production. Foreign publishers interested in establishing contact with Greek publishers may consult the electronic catalogue of Greek publishers, hosted through the new web page of Hellenic Foundation for culture: hfc-worldwide.org We would like to express our thanks to the Greek publishers and to the literary agencies: Ersilia Literary Agency (www.ersilialit.com), and Iris Literary Agency (www.irisliteraryagency.gr) for providing us with the information regarding Greek books in translation. Fiction Melpo Axioti Difficult Nights Novel Kedros publications, 1981 232 pp. ISBN: 978-960-04-1710-4 translated into French Nuits Difficiles Éditions de la différence, 2014 ISBN: 978-2-7291-2103-7 tHe BooK Youthful freshness – bright summers of a young girl on Mykonos, dull winters at the nuns’ school, a bumpy landing in athens and acquaintance with love, all complete the journey from childhood to womanhood. tHe AUtHoR Melpo axioti is one of the most important writers of the 30s generation. Her novel The Twentieth Century has been translated into French, italian, German, russian and romanian. C.p. CAvAfy 4 Selected Poems Poetry translated into French Choix de Poèmes aiora press, 2015 98 pp. ISBN: 978-618-5048-31-0 tHe BooK cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet interna- tionally. His work exists in multiple translations in a wide range of languages and major 20th-century poets as diverse as auden, brecht, brodsky, durrell, Milosz and Montale have all paid tribute to cavafy, either by writing poems in the style of cavafy, or by openly admitting their debt to his poetry in their own work. Whether his subject matter is historical, philosophical or sensual, cavafy’s unique poetic voice is always recognizable by its ironic, suave, witty, world-weary and aesthetic tones. tHe AUtHoR constantine p. cavafy was born in alexandria in 1863 and died there on the morning of his 70th birthday in 1933. He worked as an employee in the irriga- tion service at the Ministry of public Works in alexandria and was a leading figure in the literary life of the city. surprisingly, he chose not to publish any collected edition of his poems during his lifetime, but preferred to circulate small privately printed collections among his friends, seemingly confident of the afterlife of his work and of his subsequent recognition. the first collection of his poems was published in 1935, and the international acclaim for his work has grown ever since. eleNA CHoUzoURi Twice the Innocent Novel Kedros publications, 2013 232 pp. ISBN: 978-960-04-4366-0 translated into German Die Lügnerische Sonne Der Kinder Grössenwahn Verlag, 2014 ISBN: 978-3-942223-96-6 tHe BooK athens, May 2011. in the midst of the financial crisis, a young journalist is as- signed to write a story about the children of Greek political exiles, who were born in tashkent, in faraway uzbekistan, and repatriated along with their parents after 1974, when they were finally permitted to return to Greece. the 27-year-old reporter knows next to nothing about the Greek civil war, and nothing at all about the fortunes of the tens of thousands of Greek commu- nists who, following their defeat, found themselves stranded in central asia, in what was at the time a soviet republic, denounced and forgotten by their motherland. there are too many unanswered questions for these children, born and raised in a city, and a country, not of their choosing, yet one in which they were educated, formed their first friendships, fell in love for the first time, always with a single dream, a single purpose in mind: to join their parents in their future return voyage to Greece. tHe AUtHoR elena chouzouri was born in thessaloniki. she has worked as a journalist and 5 a literary critic on radio and tV shows, publishing articles in athenian news- papers and literary journals. she has acted as editorial consultant to patakis and nea synora-Livanis publishers, and was in charge of ellinika Grammata’s series Writings of Innocence and Letters for You. elena chouzouri is the author of five books of poetry, published between 1983 and 1999. Her first novel, The Black Vardar, was shortlisted for the national Literary prize for Fiction in 2005, and also the balkanika prize in 2007 and it has been translated into bulgarian, serbian and turkish. Her second novel, Cotton Motherland, was shortlisted for diavazo magazine’s Literary award for Fiction in 2009. Twice the Innocent, her most recent work (published in Greece in 2013), was translated into German in 2014. leNA DivANi I, Sugar Jacques Novel Kastaniotis editions, 2012 192 pp. ISBN: 978-960-03-5439-3 translated into english, German, italian -Seven Lives and One Great Love: The Memoirs of a Cat, europa editions, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-60945-197-4 -Das Siebte Leben des Sachos Sachoulis: Memoiren eines Katers, Grössenwahn, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-95771-027-7 -Sette vite e un Grande Amore: Memorie di un Gatto, edizioni e/o, 2013, ISBN: 978-88-6632-388-4 tHe BooK if you have ever lived with cats, you know how cunning, tender, ferocious, un- derhanded, ingenious, foolish, and completely adorable they can be. the same words can be used to describe the hero of this novel, sugar Jacques. this is the story—a love story of epic dimensions—of sugar Jacques, a cat with a keen wit and a reflective nature, and his human, Miss sweetie, a writer with a frenetic and impossibly dispersive life. in this his seventh life, sugar has count- less stories to tell and a remarkable talent for telling them. but his real area of expertise lies in his preternatural ability to domesticate his humans—what- ever you do, don’t even suggest that we are the ones who domesticate him and his feline relatives! With wit and a broad repertoire of cultural references, sugar recounts his days and nights spent with Miss sweetie in a novel that fits squarely into the illustrious tradition of feline literature a la t.s. eliot, edgar al- lan poe, baudelaire, bukowski, and celine. tHe AUtHoR Lena divani was born in Volos in 1955 and is, as well as a well-known author, assistant professor of diplomatic history at the university of athens. she has published historical studies, three volumes of short stories, six novels, a novella, four books for children and a volume containing her three plays. she has been translated into spanish, turkish, italian, romanian and Hebrew. CHRistos iKoNoMoU All Good Things Will Come From the Sea polis publishers, 2014, 224 pp. ISBN: 978-960-435-451-1 6 rights sold: France: Quidam forthcoming 2017, World english: archipelago books forthcoming 2017, italy: editori riuniti forthcoming 2017 Featured in publishers Weekly’s international Hot book properties, July 20, 2015. tHe BooK Following the great success of the award-winning bestseller, Something Will Happen You’ll See, christos ikonomou returns with a new collection of four novella-like stories titled, All Good Things Will Come From The Sea. the book recounts the story of a group of crisis stricken athenians who move to a nondescript island in the aegean in search of a better life and future. Viewed suspiciously by the mostly corrupt and inhospitable locals, the athenians find themselves victims of the same vicious cycle of power and money that drove them away from athens in the first place. christos ikonomou’s affecting collection sheds light into the ancient wounds of Modern Greek society and uncovers the painful truth behind the glamor- ous façade of the archetypal Greek holiday island. Filled with stories of heroic struggle, sacrifice, hope and defeat,All Good Things Will Come From The Sea is a heart-wrenching and heart-warming tale of love and war. Something Will Happen, You’ll See polis publishers, 2010, 255 pp. ISBN: 9789604352678 translated into italian, German, spanish, english -Qualcosacapiterà, vedrai, editori internazionali riuniti, 2012, ISBN-10: 8835991609, ISBN-13: 978-8835991601 -Wartenur, espassiertschon was, cH BECK, 2013, ISBN: 9783406647055 -Algova a pasar, ya lo versa, Valparaiso ediciones, 2015, ISBN: 9788494415821 -Something Will Happen, You’ll See, archipelago books, forthcoming 2016 ISBN: 9780914671350, e-ISBN: 9780914671367 rights sold: France/Quidam, croatia/VbZ tHe BooK the most reviewed Greek book of 2010 and the recipient of the prestigious best short-story collection state award, christos ikonomou’s bestseller, Something Will Happen You’ll See, is a wrenching yet optimistic elegy to Greece’s working classes. ikonomou takes us to the heart of the western suburbs of the port of pireaus and builds sixteen luminous stories around characters such as pension- ers, rotesters, labourers and the unemployed among others. ikonomou’s great- est strength lies in his ability to convey silences, to interpret gestures and the unseen, and translate them into images so real and haunting that they stay with the reader forever. tHe AUtHoR christos ikonomou was born in athens in 1970. He has published three collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails, (ellinikaGrammata, 2003), Something will Happen, You’ll See, (polis, 2010) and All Good Things Will Come From The Sea, (polis, 2014). Something will Happen, You’ll See has won the prestigious best short-story collection state award and became the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. it has been translated into italian (editoririuniti, 2012) and German (cH beck, 2013).

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