Ρέα Γαλανάκη
Born 1947 · Greece
Greek State Prize 2023 · Shortlist
Emmanouil kai Aikaterini
Title translated by AI:“Emmanouil and Aikaterini”
Rhea Galanaki · 75 when first published
Novel · 416 pages · Autofiction, Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A writer in her later years sets out to find who her 'known-unknown' parents were, and what shaped Emmanouil and Aikaterini before they married, following them to Cretan villages, pre-war Vienna and Bordeaux.
Greek State Prize 2016 · Shortlist
I akra tapeinosi
Title translated by AI:“The Utmost Humiliation”
Rhea Galanaki · 68 when first published
Novel · 336 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:On 12 February 2012, the night Athens burned, a former philology teacher and a former painter who share a room in a run-down hostel in the city centre slip out to join the demonstrations.
Greek State Prize 2010 · Shortlist
Foties tou Iouda, stachtes tou Oidipoda
Title translated by AI:“Fires of Judas, Ashes of Oedipus”
Rhea Galanaki · 62 when first published
Novel · 270 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In 2000 a young Greek-Jewish schoolteacher arrives in a mountain village on Crete, where the Easter custom of burning Judas opens a way into a closed society and into her own troubled family history.