1. Dimitris Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy and the composite novel Until the Victim Becomes our Own.
10 Facts About Dimitris Lyacos
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Dimitris Lyacos's characters are always at a distance from society as such, fugitives, like the narrator of Z213: Exit, outcasts in a dystopian hinterland like the characters in With the People from the Bridge, or marooned, like the protagonist of The First Death whose struggle for survival unfolds on a desert-like island.
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Dimitris Lyacos is internationally considered as one of the ten most notable postmodern authors of the 21st century, the best-known contemporary Greek author and the country's most likely candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature and an entrant in Who's Who, the database of the most prominent individuals across all fields of human activity.
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Dimitris Lyacos was born and raised in Athens, where he studied law.
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Dimitris Lyacos studied philosophy at University College London with analytical philosophers Ted Honderich and Tim Crane focusing on Epistemology and Metaphysics, Ancient Greek philosophy and Wittgenstein.
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Dimitris Lyacos was Guest International Poet with Les Murray in 1998 Poetryfest International Poetry Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales.
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Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most recent Greek authors to have achieved international recognition, Poena Damni being the most widely reviewed Greek literary work of the recent decades.
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Until autumn 2022 Dimitris Lyacos's work was translated in 21 languages with the full trilogy having appeared in 7 languages, being thus the most extensively translated work of contemporary Greek Literature in the new millennium.
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Dimitris Lyacos enters the tomb of his dead lover attempting to open the coffin in which she seems to lie in a state not affected by decomposition and the urgency of his desire reanimates her body whose passage back to life is described.
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The trilogy has given rise to scholarly criticism and is part of various university curricula on postmodern fiction, while Dimitris Lyacos has been mentioned for the Nobel Prize in Literature.