![]() ![]() (Nothing in this book is original, Lyacos says slyly, except perhaps by mistake, a remark that is itself a quotation.)” Robert Zaller – Recent Translations from Shoestring Press. “Lyacos brings to bear a formidable culture in which fragments of ancient Greek are embedded in a supple modern idiom, and a variety of classical and biblical references are seamlessly integrated into the text. Z213: EXIT, translated by Shorsha Sullivan, appeared last month in the UK published by Shoestring Press. Excerpts have been published by numerous literary periodicals, principally English-speaking, throughout the world. The trilogy has also become the attention of academic research, among others by the universities of Miami, Amsterdam, Trieste and Oxford. An audio-visual installation based on Nyctivoe made its debut in London and was thereafter hosted by a variety of prestigious European venues throughout 2005, while a contemporary dance performance based on the same work was staged in Greece in 2006-2007. His trilogy Poena Damni ( Z213: EXIT, Nyctivoe, The First Death), written over the course of eighteen years, has been translated into English, Spanish, Italian and German and has been the subject of readings in several European countries as well as the United States. ![]() He studied Law at the University of Athens and Philosophy at University College London. ![]() Dimitris Lyacos was born in Athens in 1966. ![]()
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