Christos Armando Gezos

Christos Armando Gezos was born in 1988 in Himara, Albania, and grew up in Sparta, Greece. He graduated from the National Technical University of Athens and published his first book in 2012: Unfulfilled Fears, a bleak and intense poetry collection that earned him the State Literary Award for Debuting Author the following year. His first novel, Mud, was published in 2014 and received glowing reviews from major newspapers: “A perfectly directed existential thriller” — To Vima; “A verbal torrent carrying the debris of social commentary, sarcastic aversion, conflicting views… an impressive display of literary penmanship” — The Book’s Journal. It was nominated for the Athens Prize for Literature and has been published in France and Albania. His next book, Seesaw (2016), is a collection of stories about urban alienation and modern anxiety. It has been translated into English, Russian, Turkish, Romanian, Albanian, and Bulgarian by the National Greek Committee of Southeast European Studies and the Academy of Athens. His latest novel, Needle Lost (2021), nominated for the State Literary Award for Best Novel, expands on Mud—a family saga that begins in early 20th-century communist Albania, crosses through 21st-century Greece, and lands in the heart of hyper-capitalist America. Kathimerini, the biggest newspaper in Greece, described it as “a dense composition unfolding across three temporal layers, traversing the body of the twentieth century, with distinct voices, intersecting stories, unforgettable characters, and a flowing, lyrical language.” He has represented Greece at various international literary events (such as Kiev Book Fair in 2016 and European Youth Event of Strasbourg in 2018, among others). He lives in Athens.