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Eleni Priovolou

Ελένη Πριοβόλου

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    Greek State Prize 2025 · Shortlist

    Βαθύ το σκοτάδι πριν την αυγή

    Vathy to skotadi prin tin avgi

    Title translated by AI:“Deep Is the Darkness Before Dawn”

    Eleni Priovolou

    Novel · 416 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Christodoulos Pamplekis, a motherless, smallpox-scarred boy from Akarnania, sees his father, an outlawed klepht, executed by the Turks and is sold as a slave before rising to become a teacher of the Greek Enlightenment.