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PAVLOS MATESIS
Writer


First appearance in literature: 1967. Awards: State Award Theater, 1966 (The ceremony). Prize Karolos Koun, 1989, for the best play of the year (Attentive plants). Greek-speaking Lower Italy Award ,1998, for the novel "The dog's mother". Great Critics Award 2000. Award ACERBI (Italy), 2002, for the novel "The dog's mother". Costa Varnali Award, 2008, for all his translation work. His novels "The dog's mother", 53rd edition, "the Old of the Days", 14th edition, and "Always Well", 28th edition, circulate in fourteen countries. A volume with 4 plays moves (2002) in London, Ed. Arcadia. The novels of the "Dark Guide", 8th edition, and "Aldevaran" version 6 circulating in Italy. The novel "Myrtos", 12th edition, will be released shortly in France, Romania, Finland and Israel. Plays: 14. Eleven of his plays have presented from the most important Athenian troupes. Abroad: To Elefsina (1995) for the International Theater Festival garde BITE, Belgrade. Guardian angel is rent (2003), for the International Theater Festival INTERCITY, Florence. "The mother's dog", adapted for the theater by Pavel Kochout, came to Prague in 2008. Translations: Aristophanes (9 projects, orders for Epidavros), Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Kr. Marloou, Fokner, Pinter Bitrak, Molieros, Mpomarsai, Stendhal, Ionesko, Arto, Mrozek, Orton, Akrount, Friel et al have been published and presented by the main Athenian theater companies and publishers. Pavlos Matesis is regularly invited by Universities and Book International Exhibitions in Europe and Canada.