Christos Chryssopoulos

Christos Chryssopoulos ( Greek Χρήστος Χρυσόπουλος ; * 1968 in Athens ) is a Greek writer .

Life

Christos Chryssopoulos works in Athens as a prose writer, essayist and translator.

He was a Fellow of the Creative Writing Program of the American Literature Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Visiting Professor and Fellow in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the International Writer's Program at the University of Iowa, and a Research Fellow at the University of Chicago .

He is a member of the Greek Writers' Union and the European Cultural Parliament (ECP), and he initiated the DASEIN International Literature Festival in Athens, which he runs together with the European Network Literature Across Frontiers.

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Fakos sto stoma. Ena Chroniko gia tin Athina (Torch between the teeth. A chronicle for Athens) is already his tenth independent literary publication.

He publishes regularly in Poilitiki and Athens Review of Books . Since April 2010, he has had the literary theoretical column O danismenos logos ('The borrowed language') in the magazine Nea Estia .

Chryssopoulos also works as a translator of English-language literature.

Translations of his books have so far appeared in France, Slovenia, Croatia, Sweden, Algeria, the USA, New Zealand and Hungary. His Athens trilogy, consisting of the books Periklistos Kosmos ('Locked World', 2003), O Vomvistis tou Parthenona ('The Parthenon Bomber ', 2008) and Fakos sto Stoma ('Flashlight between the teeth', 2012), is coming soon appear entirely in France.

Honors

• 2008: Prize for Narrative Prose from the Academy of Athens for the novel I Londresiki Mera tis Laura Jackson ( Laura Jackson's London Day)