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Emilios Solomou was born in Nicosia (1971). He studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He also studied Journalism in Cyprus. He has been working as a journalist for a daily newspaper for some years. He is now a teacher of Greek and History in a public High School. Many of his short-stories were published in literary magazines and some were translated in English, Bulgarian, Polish and Turkish. His novels:  Like a Sparrow, quickly you passed (2003), An axe in your hands (2007, Cyprus State Prize for Literature), Diary of an Infidelity (2012, E.U. Prize for Literature), Hatred is half a revenge (2015), The Scarecrow -a book for children- (2018). His novels were translated in many European languages.

Emilios Solomou spoke to Reading Greece* about the main themes his writings touch upon, noting that a recurrent topic in his books is “the drama of contemporary people, their loneliness while living in crowded cities and societies” and that he is also interested in “individual’s position and their weakness upon historical events”. Asked about the relation of literature to the world it inhabits, he comments that “consciousness is a factor that links literature to the real world”, adding that “fantasy is a mirror of reality that allows readers to exploit different ways of seeing the world”.

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