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Giorgos Symbardis

Γιώργος Συμπάρδης

Greece

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Books on prize lists

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    Greek State Prize 2024 · Shortlist

    Πλατεία Κλαυθμώνος

    Plateia Klafthmonos

    Title translated by AI:“Klafthmonos Square”

    Giorgos Symbardis

    Novel · 264 pages · Coming of age, Politics, Family

    AI-generated summary:The first year of the colonels' dictatorship seen through the eyes of a nineteen-year-old law student, arrested in the garden of Klafthmonos Square in Athens, and his wanderings in the gay world of the time.

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    Greek State Prize 2019 · Shortlist

    Αδέλφια

    Adelfia

    Title translated by AI:“Brothers”

    Giorgos Symbardis

    Novel · 312 pages · Family, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:In a family of the 1950s and early 1960s, a civil war breaks out between two brothers, a Cain and an Abel from utterly different worlds, told by the younger one, who cannot manage to grow up.

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    Greek State Prize 2012 · Winner

    Υπόσχεση γάμου

    Yposchesi gamou

    Title translated by AI:“Promise of Marriage”

    Giorgos Symbardis

    Novel · 483 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:During a strike on the Athens metro line, Zacharias drives two married women, Aleka and Olga, home and chats them up; they enjoy the attention, and through them he will get to know Vivi as well.