Alexis Stamatis
Alexis Stamatis is a well known Greek author, and poet . He was born in Athens, Greece in 1960 and studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and took postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London. He has published five novels. His second novel, Βar Flaubert(Kedros 2000) – a critically claimed best seller in Greece - has been published in France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Bangladesh and Serbia. Bar Flaubert has been adapted to a screenplay by the author and the director Vassilis Douvlis. Alexis Stamatis has also published six books of poetry. His second book The Architecture of Interior Spaces, was awarded the Nikiforos Vrettakos Prize in 1994.Τwo collections of his poems have been translated in Great Britain. He has written the libretti for 2 musical pieces by the composer Theo Abazis, performed in Megaron Mousikis and the Chora theatre. In 2004 he participated at the world famous International Writing Program of the University of Iowa through a Greek Fulbright Artists & Art-Scholars Award. In 2007 the US publishing house Etruscan press has won the 1st International Literary award by he US National Endowment of Arts to publish his novel American Fugue.He has represented Greece in various Book Festivals and seminars all over the world. He currently works as for columnist for the Ethnos daily newspaper.
LITERARY PRODUCTION
NOVELS
1998 “The Seventh Elephant” KEDROS, 2000 “Bar Flaubert” KEDROS 10th edition 2006, 2002 “Scorpio in the drawer” (novella) ELLINIKA GRAMMATA, 2002 “Like a Thief in the night” KASTANIOTIS 3rd edition 2003, 2003 “Theseus Street” KASTANIOTIS 4th edition 2004, 2005 “Ash Mother ” KASTANIOTIS 4nd edition 2005, 2005 “Zoi”(novella) MINOAS EDITIONS, 2005, 2006 “American fugue” KASTANIOTIS 4th edition, 2007.
NOVEL TRANSLATIONS
2000 “The Seventh Elephant” ARCADIA BOOKS, London, UK, 2002 “Bar Flaubert” CROCCETI EDITIONS, Milano, Italy, 2003 “Bar Flaubert” ALTER EDIT, Paris, France, 2006 “Bar Flaubert” RDEDITORES, Sevillia, Spain, 2007 “Bar Flaubert” LIVRE DE POCHE, Hachette, Paris, France, 2007 “Bar Flaubert” ARCADIA BOOKS, London, UK, 2007 *“Bar Flaubert” AZBOOKA, St Petersburg , Russia, 2007 *“Bar Flaubert” STUBOVIKULTUR, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007 * “The Seventh Elephant” SANDESH EDITIONS, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2008 * “American Fugue” ETRUSCAN PRESS, USA, 2008 * "American Fugue" CROCCETI EDITIONS, Milano, Italy.
- under publication
COLLECTIONS OF POEMS
1992 “ The Corner Of the World “ SOCOLIS EDITIONS, 1993 “ Architecture of the Intimate Spaces” KASTANIOTIS EDITIONS, 1995 “ A Simple Method of Three” KASTANIOTIS EDITIONS, 1999 “ Dense Now”* ELLINIKA GRAMMATA, 2002 “ The closer I get the more the future gets away” RODAKIO, 2004 “We are never alone” KASTANIOTIS EDITIONS,
- 1st award of the City of Athens in memory of the Greek poet Nikiforos Vrettakos
POETRY TRANSLATIONS
2001 “Collected Poetry of Alexis Stamatis” DIONYSIA PRESS,EDINBURGH, 2003 . “Dense Now” DIONYSIA PRESS,EDINBURGH, 2007 “We are never alone”* DIONYSIA PRESS,EDINBURGH,
- under publication
THEATRE OPERA & CINEMA (plays, libretti & screenplays)
THEATRE
2002-03 «Look at me»,«Opera Theatre Group», «Chororoes» Theatre, direction, music Theo Abazis, 2002 “Last Martha” monologue for the Cultural Olympiad. Directed and performed by Dimitris Ikonomou
OPERA
2000 «Socrates», ««Megaro Mousikis», music Theo Abazis, direction Victor Ardittes, 2000 «A walk in Hades»,"ORCHESTRA OF COLOURS», «Chora Theatre», music Theo Abazis
CINEMA
2002 «Bar Flaubert» Along with the film director Vassilis Douvlis he wrote a screenplay based on his novel “Bar Flaubert” sponsored by the program “GRAFI” of the Greek National Film Center.
LITERARY AND OTHER AWARDS
1994 1st award of the City of Athens in memory of the Greek poet Nikiforos Vrettakos for his second book of poetry:"Architecture of the Intimate Spaces" Athens 16/03/1994, 2004-2005 Greek Fulbright Artists & Art-Scholars Award, 2007 Etruscan press has won the 1st International Literary award by the US National Endowment of Arts for his novel “American Fugue”
LITERARY FESTIVALS AND ROUND TABLES
2001 Represented Greece at the 2001 Leipzig Book Fair, 2001 Represented Greece at the 3rd Round table of European Poetry in Riga and Sigulda, Latvia, 2002 Represented Greece at the Sydney Writer’s Festival, 2003 Represented Greece at the Blue Metropolis Writers Festival in Montreal, Canada, 2003 Presented the French edition of his novel “Bar Flaubert” at the” Salon de Literature Europeene” in Cognac, France, 2004 Presented the French edition of his novel “Bar Flaubert” at the Panorama de la Literature Grecque Contemporaine in Caen, France, 2004 Represented Greece at the Southeast European Literature Festival in Salonika and Instabul, Turkey, 2004 Participated at the world famous International Writing Program of the University of Iowa through a Greek Fulbright Artists & Art-Scholars Award, 2004-2005 2005 Spent one month in the Villa Mont Noir, the birthplace of Marguerite Yourcenar with a fellowship of ‘The Conseil du Nord’, 2005 Participated at the Summer School for Translation of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2007 Will be participating at the Edinburgh International Book Fair, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
BLOG
http://alexistamatis.blogspot.com
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