About the Author

Elias Papadimitrakopoulos was born in Pyrgos, in 1930. One of the most beloved and admired Greek short-story writers, he received the Petros Haris Foundation Prize from the Academy of Athens in 2010 and the National Literary Award in 2015. He combines his remarkably subtle gift of precision of language with the profound sensibility and compassion for his subjects that has made his reputation as a master painter of the triste and ephemeral. His collected short stories are now gathered in a six-volume set published by Gavriilidis. He lives in Athens and, during the summer, on the island of Paros.

Alekos Fassianos is widely considered to be one of Greece’s most significant and popular visual artists. The artist’s highly personal, anthropocentric style has evolved, over the years, into a multifaceted visual treatise of everyday life and constitutes a moving symbol of postwar Greece.

John Taylor is an American writer and translator who lives in France. He has translated many French, Italian, and Modern Greek poets and is the author of eleven volumes of short prose and poetry. He has just published Harsh Out of Tenderness: The Greek Poet and Urban Folklorist Elias Petropoulos.