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The Child

Yannis Palavos

The Child

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The stories in the collection The Child (2019), written in Yannis Palavos’s signature short form, are tender and filled with nostalgia, comical and realistic, metaphorical and fantastical, and share a common thread—the author’s hometown, a child’s perspective, and nature. The spare language—a hallmark of the author since his earliest works—seamlessly transports us from the surreal and illogical to the realistic, which not only does not shy away from but also captivatingly hints at the supernatural. Bulgarian readers will discover in The Child a minimalist portrait of the countryside in neighboring Greece—a place radically different from our preconceptions—constructed through the main characters: children, love, and death.
  1. Contemporary European Fiction

Yannis Palavos

Yannis Palavos was born in Velvento, Kozani in Greece in 1980. He studied Journalism at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and Arts Administration at the Panteion University in Athens. He is the author of two short story collections (“True Love and other stories”, 2007, and “Joke”, 2012) and the co-author of a graphic novel (“The Corpse”, 2011). His short stories have won prizes from the British Council (2005, Best short story award at the British Council Young Writers’ National Contest) and Anagnostis Magazine.

His translations of Matthew Arnold, Katherine Mansfield, Edgar Lee Masters, Guillevic, Ray Bradbury, Willa Cather, Miroslav Holub, Donald Justice, Langston Hughes, Saki and Tobias Wolff have appeared in numerous Greek journals and web publications.

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