Giannis Palavos

Giannis Palavos was born in 1980 in Velvento, Kozani. He studied Journalism at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Cultural Management at Panteion University. He is the author of the short story collections True Love and Other Stories (Intro Books 2007), Funny (Nefeli 2012; Ikaros 2024), which received the State Short Story Award and the Short Story Award from the online magazine O Anagnostis, and The Child (Nefeli 2019). In collaboration with Tasos Zafeiriadis, he wrote the scripts for the comics The Corpse (Jemma Press 2011) and Gra-Grou (Ikaros 2017), illustrated by Thanasis Petrou; Gra-Grou was honored with the Best Comic and Best Script awards at the Greek Comic Awards. He edited the reissue of Athanasios Th. Gravalis’s narratives titled Broken Columns (1930) as part of the “Our Prose Tradition” series by Nefeli Publishers (2019). Among other works, he has translated books by William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Breece D’J Pancake, Wallace Stegner, and Tobias Wolff.