Christos Armandos Gezos


Christos Armando Gezos 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 , he received in 2014 the State Literary Award for Debuting Author. He has also published a novel, Η λάσπη.

Early life and education

Gezos was born in 1988, in Himara, a small coastal city in the Greek minority zone of southern Albania that is known as Northern Epirus. 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 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 ', for which he was awarded in the State Literary Awards of Greece in 2014 as "The Best Debuting Author" of the year. In 2014, he published his first novel Η λάσπη ', which was in the short list of the , for the best Greek novel of 2014.