Christos Armandos Gezos

Christos Armando Gezos, in Athens (2015)

Christos Armandos[1] Gezos (Greek: Χρήστος Αρμάντο Γκέζος, born 1988) is a Greek author and poet. Gezos was born in Himara, southern Albania, and grew up in Skala Laconia, Greece. For his poetry collection Ανεκπλήρωτοι Φόβοι (Unfullfilled Fears), he received in 2014 the State Literary Award for Debuting Author.[2] He has also published a novel, Η λάσπη (The mud).

Early life and education

Gezos was born in 1988, in Himara, a small coastal city in the Greek minority zone of southern Albania. In 1991 and after the opening of the Greek-Albanian borders that followed the collapse of the communist regime in Albania, his family immigrated to Greece, particularly in Skala, Laconia, a town half an hour south of Sparta. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens[3] as a Surveying Engineer. He currently lives in Athens.

Works

Gezos started writing poems and stories when he was 19 years old. In 2012 he published his first book, a poetry collection called Ανεκπλήρωτοι φόβοι (Unfullfilled fears),[3] for which he was awarded in the State Literary Awards of Greece in 2014 as "The Best Debuting Author" of the year.[2][4] In 2014, he published his first novel Η λάσπη (The mud), which was in the short list of the Athens Prize for Literature, for the best Greek novel of 2014.

References

1. sometimes also spelled Armando without "s" at the end
2. Tsiliopoulos, Euthimis. "State Literary Awards 2014". TheTOC. Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2014. The Best Debuting Author Award was awarded by majority to Christos Armandos Gezos
3. Σκανδύλα, Χάϊδω. Δεν περίμενα το βραβείο (in Greek). Αγγελιοφόρος της Κυριακής. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
4. Δελτία Τύπου: Κυριακή, 30 Μαρτίου 2014 25/3/2014 (in Greek). University of Culture and Athletics (Greece). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2014.

External links

• Christos Armando Gezos at Goodreads