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Alexis Stamatis is a well-known Greek novelist, playwright and poet born in Athens, Greece. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and took postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London. He has published eleven novels. His second novel, ''Βar Flaubert'' (Kedros, 2000), a critically acclaimed bestseller in Greece, has been published in UK, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Serbia and Bulgaria. ''Bar Flaubert'' has been adapted as a screenplay by the author and the director Vassilis Douvlis. 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 wrote the libretti for two musical pieces 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 won the 1st International Literary award from the US National Endowment for the Arts to publish his novel ''American Fugue''. Stamatis presented his book in the US in 2008. His tour included around 15 universities all over the country, including Harvard, Yale, New York University, San Francisco State University and Brown. He has written the following plays, among others: ''Last Martha'', Monologue for the Cultural Olympiad; directed and performed by Dimitris Ikonomou (2003), ''Dakrygona'' (Tear Gas), 2010, and ''Kill Your Darlings'', 2012, three-act plays, staged at the Theatre of Kefallinias Street and directed by Aris Troupakis, ''Melissia'', National Theater of Greece 2012 (play reading), ''Midnight in a perfect world'', Monologue (2013) directed by Aris Troupakis and staged at Theatro Technis Karolos Koun, ''Innerview'', one-act play, staged at Southbank Centre, London (2013). for the event "Greece is the word!", ''Innerview'', three-act play, to be staged at the Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation, 2014–15. In 2009 he was writer in residence in Shanghai, invited by the Shanghai Writers Association. He has represented Greece in various Book Festivals and seminars all over the world. He has been working for many major Greek newspapers and magazines. Ηe currently teaches creative writing at the Hellenic American Academic Foundation (Athens College - Psychico College) and the Herakleidon Art Museum. ==Novels== *1998 - ''The Seventh Elephant''. Kedros *2000 - ''Bar Flaubert''. Kedros, 16th edition, 2011, 20th edition, Kastaniotis, 2012 *2002 - ''Like a Thief in the night''. Kastaniotis, 4th edition, 2009 *2003 - ''Theseus Street''. Kastaniotis, 4th edition, 2004 *2005 - ''Mother Ash ''. Kastaniotis, 4th edition, 2005 *2006 - ''American Fugue''. Kastaniotis, 4th edition, 2007 *2008 - ''Villa Combray'', Kastaniotis, 9th edition, 2014 *2009 - ''Kill your darlings'', Kastaniotis 4th edition, 2010 *2011 - ''Sunday'', Kastaniotis (2nd edition, 2011) *2012 - ''Can you cry underwater?'' Kastaniotis, 3rd edition, 2013 *2013 - ''Chameleons''. Kastaniotis, 2013, 2nd edition, 2014 *2014 - ''Melissia''. Kastaniotis, 2014 *2015 - ''The book of rain''. Kastaniotis, 2015 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexis Stamatis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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