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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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Greek State Prize 2016 · Shortlist
Δενδρίτες · Dendrites
Novel · 208 pages · Family, Migration, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In a decaying Camden, New Jersey, in 1980, a teenage boy vanishes and his mother dies the next morning, and his orphaned twelve-year-old sister Minnie bursts into the life of her classmate Leto and her family.
Greek State Prize 2015 · Winner
Νίκη · Niki
Christos Chomenidis · 48 when first published
Novel · 496 pages · Family, Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:A novel built on a mother's stories about her father, a leading interwar figure of the Greek Communist Party, and on his own accounts of his long, painful relationship with the Left.
Greek State Prize 2014 · Shortlist
Μάρτυς μου ο Θεός · Martys mou o Theos
Makis Tsitas · 42 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Fifty, out of work and in poor health, a simple man who only wants to live with dignity pours out in a torrent of words the betrayals he has suffered since childhood from women, employers and his own family.
Greek State Prize 2013 · Shortlist
Χορεύουν οι ελέφαντες · Chorevoun oi elefantes
Novel · 345 pages · Historical, Politics, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A Thessaloniki schoolboy refuses to sit the national university exams, and his favourite teacher sets him to investigate the 1948 murder of an American journalist for which an innocent man was jailed.
Greek State Prize 2011 · Shortlist
Τα σακιά · Ta sakia
Ioanna Karystiani · 58 when first published
Novel · 320 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Vivi Choleva, who earns her living caring for elderly people in their homes, takes her son Linos, who has strayed onto dark paths, on a five-day trip to Delphi.
Greek State Prize 2007 · Winner
Σουέλ · Souel
Ioanna Karystiani · 54 when first published
Novel · 272 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:For twelve years a seaman has kept away from his wife and children and from the shore; the ship Athos III is now where he lives, alone with his memories, his secrets and the slow heave of the ocean.
Greek State Prize 2004 · Winner
Οι ξένες λέξεις · Oi xenes lexeis
Vassilis Alexakis · 60 when first published
Novel · 214 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Still mourning his father, a man named Nikolaidis sets out to learn Sango, the language of the Central African Republic, on his own from a dictionary, and the study of its words becomes a way through his grief.
Greek State Prize 2004 · Shortlist
Ο Τσε αυτοκτόνησε · O Tse aftoktonise
Novel · 356 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:When a prominent businessman takes his own life live on television, no one sees a crime, except a police inspector who is off work recovering and looking for anything to break the boredom.
Greek State Prize 2000 · Winner
Ζιγκ-ζαγκ στις νεραντζιές · Zigk-zagk stis nerantzies
Ersi Sotiropoulos · 46 when first published
Novel · 234 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Nina rebels, Lia is dying, Sotiris falls in love, Sid walks a tightrope and a black bird talks: a handful of lives that move off in different directions and yet, almost unnoticed, become entangled.