CHristos CHrysopoulos

Christos Chryssopoulos was born in Athens in December 1968. He is a novelist, essayist, and photographer. He has been honored with the Academy of Athens Award for Narrative Prose (2008) and the French awards Prix Ravachol (2013) and Prix Laure Bataillon (2014). His works include: "The Parthenon Bomber" (novella, Anatolikos, 1996; Kastaniotis, 2010), "Napoleon Delastos' Recipes" (short stories, Odysseas, 1997), "Sunyata" (novel, Odysseas, 1999; Kastaniotis, 2004), "The Manicurist" (novella, Odysseas, 2000), "Enclosed World" (novel, Kastaniotis, 2003), "Imaginary Museum" (prose, Kastaniotis, 2005), "The Language Box" (essay, Kastaniotis, 2006), "Laura Jackson's London Day" (novel, Kastaniotis, 2008 - Academy of Athens Award for Narrative Prose), "Flashlight in the Mouth" (narrative, Polis, 2012 - Prix Laure Bataillon 2014), "The Body of Tirthankara" (travel novel, Nefeli, 2014), the bilingual artist book "The Black Dress" (RCIPP, 2002), in collaboration with photographer Diane Neumaier, the album "Encounters" (Listasafn Reykjavikur, 2003), the essay "The Double Dream of Writing" in collaboration with poet Haris Vlavianos (Patakis, 2010), and the photographic album "My Mother's Silence" (Nefeli, 2014, inspired by the eponymous photography exhibition at the Delmouzos House in Amfissa). His books have been translated and published in twelve languages (France, Slovenia, Sweden, Algeria, USA, New Zealand, Hungary, etc.). His collaborations appear in anthologies such as: "With Wide Open Eyes" (Kastaniotis, 2004), "Novel of a City" (Omega, 2004), "Shattered Planet" (Minoas, 2004), "Lemon Sorbet" (Kedros, 2004), "Athens at Night" (Intro Books, 2006), "Names" (Kedros, 2008), "Lost on the Internet" (Patakis, 2008), "Theory, Literature, Left" (To Perasma, 2008), "The Book of Evil" (Magic Box, 2009), "Our America" (Metaichmio, 2010), "The Greek Fantastic Short Story" (Aeolos, 2012), "The Imprint of the Crisis" (Metaichmio, 2013). He translates from English. He has been hosted at writers' centers and has lectured in Europe and the USA. He was a guest of the Creative Writing Program of the American Literature Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was a visiting professor and fellow at the MFA Creative Writing Program and the International Writer's Program at the University of Iowa and a research fellow at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Society of Authors, the European Cultural Parliament (ECP), and the European Writers' Council (EWC). He founded and directed, in collaboration with the European network Literature Across Frontiers, the international literary festival Dasein in Athens (http://daseinfest.blogspot.com), which hosted writers from more than 12 countries. In 2014, the Franco-German channel ARTE dedicated a one-hour television portrait to him. He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Poetics" and regularly writes for the magazines FRMK [Pharmako] and "The Athens Review of Books." Between 2010-2012, he curated the literary theory column "Borrowed Speech" in the magazine "Nea Estia." As a photographer/visual artist, he has collaborated with many performers and visual artists in Greece and mainly abroad (Alain Guerry, Shifty Tongue, Post-Media Lab, Vassilia Stylianidou, Orchestra of Small Things, etc.). His work "My Mother's Silence" has been featured in international magazines such as "Phases," "Mutant Space," and "Banana." The ongoing audiovisual project "Look Twenty-Short Love Story" is hosted on the online platform "A place for the arts" (http://karouzo.com/http:/karouzo.com/christos-chrissopoulos-look-twenty/). Solo Exhibitions: - "Idiolexicon" (Prague: The Centre for Metamedia) - "The Black Dress" (New Jersey: RCIPP - with Diane Neumaier, 2002) - "Encounters" (Reykjavik: Contemporary Art Museum - with Diane Neumaier, 2003) - "Disjunction" (Paris: Galerie Desmos, Marseille: MucEM, Helsinki: Nuorri Voima Foundation, 2015) - "My Mother's Silence" (Amfissa: The Symptom Projects-Delmouzos House, 2014, Athens: Alex Mylonas Museum, 2015, Caen: Cine Lux, 2015). His websites are: www.photoskiasis.wordpress.com and http://chrissopoulos.blogspot.com. (photo: Juliana Biallas)