Antonis CHaristos

Antonis Charistos was born in Thessaloniki in 1988. He is a philologist and a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His latest postgraduate degree was in the "Creative Writing" program at the Hellenic Open University. He completed a two-year course in journalism at the Metropolitan College, specializing in "political editing, article writing, and modern media." He attended two semester-long programs focused on "psychiatric and forensic psychopathology" and "childhood education" at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, respectively. He is a founding member of the Surrealist Group of Thessaloniki since May 2018. He has published two prose works: the novella "Four Breaths of Freedom" (published by Alloste, Athens, 2016) and the novel "Days of Fasting" (published by Rome, Thessaloniki, 2018). Additionally, he has published the theoretical works "Manifesto of Humanistic Art" (published by Rome, Thessaloniki, 2018) and "Surrealism and the Autonomy of Ideas: For a New Construction of Tradition" (published by Rome, Thessaloniki, 2019). He has curated the script and texts for the short films of the Surrealist Group of Thessaloniki "I Desire," "Pulp of Blood" (directed by Natasa Hasakioli), as well as the script and direction for the short film "Om/phalos of Hemorrhage." He is the editor-in-chief of the annual theoretical magazine "Klivanos," the monthly "Literary Bulletin," a collective publication of prose, and "Publishing News," a quarterly publication of critical reports.