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Elena Maroutsou

Έλενα Μαρούτσου

Born 1967 · Greece

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Greek State Prize 2021 · Shortlist

    Θηριόμορφοι

    Thiriomorfoi

    Title translated by AI:“Beast-Shaped”

    Elena Maroutsou · 53 when first published

    Novel · 224 pages · Love, War, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:In a Kraków hotel, a Greek literature professor grieving his wife meets an enigmatic young Italian actress, and their chance encounter unspools stories leading back to a mansion on Chios and a convent in Syracuse.

  • No English yet

    Greek State Prize 2019 · Shortlist

    Δύο

    Dyo

    Title translated by AI:“Two”

    Elena Maroutsou · 51 when first published

    Novel · 200 pages · Family, Historical

    AI-generated summary:After her mother's sudden death, the narrator finds a series of letters with sketches inspired by Diane Arbus's photographs, and follows them into her family's past in the mines of Serifos, where revolts were crushed in blood.