Aygoustos Korto

August Kortos, whose real name is Petros Chatzopoulos, was born in 1979 in Thessaloniki. He has published short stories, novels, poems, novellas, reviews, and children's books.His novels published by Patakis Publishers include The Book of Katerina (2013), Because It Is My Heart (2014), A Brief Chronicle of Madness (2016), Rena (2017), Dog’s Soul (2018), Leonardo’s Secret (2019), Despina (2020), When My Friends Are Asleep (2021), Half a Child (2021), The Other Katerina (2022), The Little Word Love (2022), Jerry (2023), Tsitsimbou, the Witch of the Dancefloor (2023), The Green Star (2023), Sex and How to Avoid It (2024), Sex on February 30th (2025); the humorous essays Eros Anikate Masan (2015), Modern Greek Mythology (2016), The Man Who Ate a Lot (2016), Fire on the Saturday Fats (2018); the testimony The Best Worst Day of Your Life: Conversations About Light in the Darkness of Depression (2020); and the narrative My Father’s Heart (2024).He has also written children's books: The Disappearance of Dorothy Snot (2003), which won the State Award for Children's Literature as well as the Greek Children's Book Circle Award; Ursula de Fluff’s Haunted Tower (2005); Mom Doesn’t Want to Get Me a Pet (2005); Crime on the Tundra Express (2011); I’ll Never Take a Bath Again! (2013); The Cursed Necklace of Niaoufertiti (2016); Cornelius Krik, Squirrel Detective (2016); and The Little UFO (2017).