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Sophia Nikolaidou

Σοφία Νικολαΐδου

Greece

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Books on prize lists

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    Greek State Prize 2025 · Shortlist

    Δικά μας παιδιά

    Dika mas paidia

    Title translated by AI:“Our Own Children”

    Sophia Nikolaidou

    Novel · 352 pages · Coming of age, Family

    AI-generated summary:Teenagers who grew up shut in their rooms, making beats on computers and writing rap bars in notebooks, form a rap group, while their parents' generation watches them with fear and incomprehension.

  • In English

    Greek State Prize 2013 · Shortlist

    The Scapegoat

    Χορεύουν οι ελέφαντες · Chorevoun oi elefantes

    Sophia Nikolaidou

    Novel · 345 pages · Historical, Politics, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:A Thessaloniki schoolboy refuses to sit the national university exams, and his favourite teacher sets him to investigate the 1948 murder of an American journalist for which an innocent man was jailed.