Christos Chomenidis

Christos Chomenidis was born in 1966 in Athens where he studied Law. In 1993 he published his first novel, The Wise Child, which launched his career as a professional writer. His subsequent novels and lots of his short stories were translated in various languages (French, English, Lithuanian, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew). Chomenidis has also written scripts for cinema and television, and writes a weekly column in the newspaper Ta Nea. In 2021, his novel Niki won the European Book Award (Prix du Livre Europeen).

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