Μιχάλης Μοδινός
Born 1950 · Greece
Greek State Prize 2021 · Shortlist
Paragouai
Title translated by AI:“Paraguay”
Michalis Modinos · 70 when first published
Novel · 384 pages · Historical, Migration
AI-generated summary:Gavriil, an agronomist from Karditsa whose business and marriage have collapsed, seeks a new start through an idealised love and a farm in Paraguay, where an ancestor from the Pindus fled three centuries earlier.
Greek State Prize 2017 · Winner
Ekouatoria
Title translated by AI:“Equatoria”
Michalis Modinos · 66 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In the late 19th century, an Alexandrian cotton merchant settled in Zanzibar travels to Equatoria, where Emin Pasha's band of Europeans, Egyptians and Sudanese builds a new society cut off by the Mahdist revolt.
Greek State Prize 2015 · Shortlist
Teleftaia exodos: Stymfalia
Title translated by AI:“Last Exit: Stymphalia”
Michalis Modinos · 64 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Satire, Nature, Politics
AI-generated summary:At dawn on the Stymphalia plateau, the narrator passes a checkpoint held by bearded men with hunting rifles who welcome him from 'the land of the dead', in a darkly comic chronicle of Greece's crisis.
Greek State Prize 2012 · Shortlist
I schedia
Title translated by AI:“The Raft”
Michalis Modinos · 61 when first published
Novel · 191 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Paris, 1818: a woman who survived the wreck of the frigate Méduse calls on the young Théodore Géricault in his Montmartre studio and tells him her story.