Name Kostas Hatziantoniou | Role Writer | |
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Awards European Union Prize for Literature | ||
Kostas Hatziantoniou (Greek: Κώστας Χατζηαντωνίου; born 1965) is a Greek writer. He attended the University of Athens. His published fiction include The Book of Black Bile (2001) and Agrigento (2009). Agrigento won the EU Prize for Literature in 2011.
Biography
Kostas Hatziantoniou was born in 1965 in Rhodes, where he also grew up. He studied political sciences and public administration at the Law School of the University of Athens. He made his first appearance in literature in 1990 by the publication of the magazine “Remvi”. Since then he collaborated with all the notable literature magazines of the country, as well as with encyclopedic publications, by writing literature texts, critic essays and historical or political articles. His writing work contains narrations, historical studies, essays and novels. He has been awarded by PEN Club, by the Society of Christian Letters as well as by the essay’ s prize P. Foteas. In 2009- 2011 he had been selected as member of the Committee of the National Literature Awards of Greece. He is member of "Kostis Palamas Foundation" executive committee.