Kostas Arkoudeas

Kostas Arkoudeas was born in Athens in 1958. After many wanderings, he returned to the capital and worked at the Ministry of Culture. Today, he lives and works in Thessaloniki. He first published the collection of stories "Let Bob Marley Wait" in 1986. He then released the trilogy "The City with a Thousand Faces" (1987) and the novel with embedded stories "The Song of the Tropics" (1988). This was followed by the novels "The Passions of the Aegean" (1994), "Never the Same Road" (1999), "The Pirate" (2003), "Alexander the Great and His Shadow" (2004), "The Number of God" (2008), and "Fervent Passion" (2013). He also published the novellas "And Be Careful Not to Turn to Stone" (1996), "And Now It's Not Too Late" (2014), the short story collection "Every Day is Sunday" (2000), the anthology of short texts "The Singles" (2010), the fairy tale "The Colorful Spinning Top" (2013), and the literary chronicle "The Lost Nobel - A True Story" (2015). "The Passions of the Aegean" was reissued in a renewed edition by Kastaniotis Editions (2017), and in the meantime, it has been released in its new form in Spanish by the Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas based in Granada, translated by Panagiota Papadopoulos, Juan Rojas Garcia, and Dolores Karmen Casas Herrada.