Biography

Avgoustos Korto (Greek: Αύγουστος Κορτώ) is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos (Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος). Korto was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979. In addition to the fourteen novels, novellas and short stories collections he has published over the years, he has also worked extensively as a translator, and has translated into Greek numerous works by English-language writers, amongst them books by Nabokov, Banville, Updike, Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. In 2004 Corteau won the Greek National Book Award for Children's Literature and the IBBY Prize for Best Children's Novel. In 2014, he participated in the International Writing...Read More