Description
Finalist for the EBRD Literature Prize 2022. Award-winning and prolific author of novels, plays, novellas, short story collections and translations. A popular stage adaptation of the novel, directed by Yorgos Nanouris, won critical acclaim and was presented to UK audiences in 2016.
About the Author
CORTEAU is the pen name of Petros Hatzopoulos. Born in Thessaloniki in 1979, he has lived for the last decade in Athens. He is the author of fourteen novels as well as plays, novellas and short story collections and is a recipient of the Greek National Book Award for Children's Literature. He has also translated more than thirty worksof literature into Greek, from Nabokov's Lolita to Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. Corteau, an LGBT activist, in 2016 signed a Cohabitation Pact with his partner, the first same-sex couple to do so after the law was passed in the Greek Parliament.
Reviews
The Book of Katerina is a gleefully sardonic novel about illness and family, and how we can never quite cure ourselves of either. GLEN JAMES BROWN
Book Information
ISBN 9781912681266
Author Auguste Corteau
Format Paperback
Page Count 170
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books