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Alexis Stamatis was born in Athens. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and did postgraduate degrees in architecture and cinema in London.
American Fugue is his sixth novel. He is adapting his novel Bar Flaubert (published by Kedros in 2000) as a screenplay in collaboration with director Vassilis Douvlis for a Greek Film Centre program.
Stamatis has published six collections of poems. His second, Architecture of Interior Space, won the Athens Municipality’s Nikiforos Vrettakos Memorial Prize for Poetry.
Translations
In English:
The Seventh Elephant, translated by David Connolly. London: Arcadia Books, 2000. 199pp.
ISBN: 1-900850-21-4
Original Title: O evdomos elefantas
Architecture of Interior Space & The Simple Method of Three, translated by Thom Nairn & GAP Dionysia Zervanou. Edinburgh: Dionysia Press, 2001. 101pp.
ISBN: 1-903171-05-9
Original Title: Architektoniki esoterikon horon. Apli methodos ton trion
The Dense Now, translated by Thom Nairn & Dionysia Zervanou. Edinburgh: Dionysia Press, 2003. 61pp.
ISBN: 1-903171-11-3
Original Title: Pykno tora
Bar Flaubert, translated by David Connolly. London: Arcadia Books, 2006. 400pp.
ISBN: 1-900850-57-5
Original Title: Bar Flaubert
In Italian:
Bar Flaubert, translated by Gabriella Macrí. Milano: Crocetti Editore, 2002. 298pp.
ISBN: 88-8306-093-8
Original Title: Bar Flaubert
In French:
Bar Flaubert, translated by Laure Pécher. Châtenay-Malabry: Alteredit, 2004. 365pp.
ISBN: 2-8463-3058-1
Original Title: Bar Flaubert
In Spanish:
Bar Flaubert, translated by María Recuenco Peñalver & Juan Manuel Ricotti Leiva. Sevilla: RD Editores, 2006. 299pp.
ISBN: 84-95724-78-2
Original Title: Bar Flaubert
In Russian:
Bar Flaubert, upcoming from Azbooka
In Serbian:
Bar Flaubert, forthcoming from Stubovikultur
The Seventh Elephant is to be published in Bangladesh.
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