Gezoul
Author:Niki Marangou
Rights sold: Greek
Genre:Novel 
Number of pages:209 
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ISBN:978-960-05-1481-0 
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Publishing company:Estia, Athen 
The year of publishing:2010 
Origin Country:Greece 

Author and his oeuvre

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Born in Limassol, Cyprus 1948. Studied sociology in West Berlin from 1965-70. Worked for ten years as dramaturg at the State Theatre of Cyprus. From 1980-2007 she was directing KOCHLIAS BOOKSHOP in Nicosia.

She has published books of prose, poetry and children’s fairy tales and won state prizes for her literary work. In 1998 she wan in Alexandria the Cavafy prize for poetry. She is a member of the Hellenic Authors Society and the Cyprus Writers Assosiation. In 2006 she received the poetry award from the Athens Academy for her book DIVAN. In May 2008 her book THE DEMON OF LUST was chosen by DIAVAZO REWARDS in Athens as among the ten best short stories of the year. In 2004 her poem “Roses” was chosen to be hung in waiting rooms in NHS Hospitals in the UK. Her poems are included in the “European constitution in verse” of the Brussels Poetry Collective (2009) and in the cd «Nachrichten von der Poesie» (Random House) edited by Joachim Sartorius.

She had seven exhibitions of her work in painting. She lives in Nicosia and has a daughter who is a painter.

Selected works in prose:

- A layer of sand, Kastaniotis ed. Athens 1990, State prize for prose
- Is the panther alive, Kastaniotis ed. Athens 1998, State prize for prose
- Und sie feierten Hochzeit, Romiosini Verlag, Cologne, Germany 2000
- Doctor from Vienna, 2003, Rodakio Athens, 2003
Foundation of Bulgarian Literature, Sofia; Rimal Publ. Beirut.
- From Famagusta to Vienna, Athens 2005;
Editura Meronia,Bucureşti 2005; Kitap Pub. Klagenfurt, Austria 2007;
Arabic edition from Rimal Publications, Beirut 2010;
Eloquent books, USA 2010
- Nicossienses (with photographer Arunas Baltenas), Vilnius, Lithuania,
2005
- A night with Alexis (photos and text about the painter Alexis
Akrithakis), 2008, Athens

Translations:

Joachim Sartorius “Alexandria” with drawings by Anna Boghiguian, Rodakio Publ. Athens 199

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

1993 Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
1996 Sixth Biennale of Cairo