Alexis Stamatis

Alexis Stamatis

Alexis Stamatis is a well known Greek novelist, 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 seven novels. His second novel, "Βar Flaubert" (Kedros 2000), a critically acclaimed 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 will be presenting his book in the US in 2008. His tour includes various Universities including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Brown. 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 contributions=

Novels

*1998 - "The Seventh Elephant". Kedros.
*2000 - "Bar Flaubert". Kedros, 11th edition, 2007.
*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, 4th edition, 2005.
*2005 - "Zoi" (novella). Minoas Editions, 2005.
*2006 - "American Fugue". Kastaniotis, 4th edition, 2007.
*2007 - "Stories for Lonely People". (short sories), Topos editions
*2008 - "Villa Combray". Kastaniotis

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". Rd Editores, Seville, Spain.
*2007 - "Bar Flaubert". Livre de Poche, Hachette, Paris, France.
*2007 - "Bar Flaubert". Arcadia Books, London, UK.
*2008 - "American Fugue". Etruscan Press, USA
*2008 - "American Fugue". Crocceti Editions, Milano, Italy
*2008 - "Mother Ash". Acik Defter, Istanbul, Turkey
*2009 - "Mother Ash". Red Hen Press, USA (under publication)
*2009 - "Bar Flaubert". Stubovikultur, Belgrade, Serbia (under publication).
*2009 - "Bar Flaubert". Azbooka, St. Petersburg, Russia. (under publication).

Poem collections

*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.

Poetry translations

*2001 - "Collected Poetry of Alexis Stamatis". Dionysia Press, Edinburgh.
*2003 - "Dense Now". Dionysia Press, Edinburgh.
*2008 - "We are never alone". Dionysia Press, Edinburgh (under publication).

Theatre, opera, and cinema

Theatre

*2002-2003 - "Look at me". Opera Theatre Group, Chororoes Theatre; directing and music by Theo Abazis.
*2002 - "Last Martha". Monologue for the Cultural Olympiad; directed and performed by Dimitris Ikonomou.
*2008 - "Last Martha". Monologue; Theatre of Kefallinias Street, directed by Vicky Georgiadou, and performed by Christos Stergioglou.

Opera

*2000 - "Socrates". Megaro Mousikis, music by Theo Abazis, directed by Victor Ardittes.
*2000 - "A walk in Hades". Orchestra of Colours, Chora Theatre, music by 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.
*2007-08 - "Deluge". Screenplay for a Haris Patramanis film

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 - Greek Fulbright Artists & Art-Scholars Award.
*2007 - Etruscan press has won the 1st International Literary Award by the US National Endowment of Arts for Alexis Stamatis' 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 - Participated at the Edinburgh International Book Fair, in Edinburgh, Scotland.


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