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Aris Fioretos

Born 1960 · Sweden

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Augustpriset 2015 · Shortlist

    Mary

    Aris Fioretos · 55 when first published

    Novel · 315 pages · Politics, Historical

    AI-generated summary:Mary P., twenty-three, is an architecture student under a military dictatorship. Her boyfriend is plotting resistance, and one November night in 1973 the security police take her away.

  • No English yet

    Augustpriset 2009 · Shortlist

    Den siste greken

    Title translated by AI:“The Last Greek”

    Aris Fioretos · 49 when first published

    Novel · 384 pages · Migration, Historical

    AI-generated summary:One winter day in 1967 Jannis Georgiadis, a smiling, muscular Greek, walks into a hospital in Kristianstad and ends up staying in Sweden. His friend Kostas sets out to record his life on index cards.