A world is born

Shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Prize of o anagnostis
Longlisted for the 2025 Literary Prize of hartismag  Literary and Art Magazine

On a cold December night in Athens, a man steps into a traditional ouzeri. A woman turns to face him — and a world is born. Perhaps it’s the same world that’s always been there, only now it shines differently. This is the story of a love unexpected: its fragile beginnings, its quiet terrain of joy, ache, and transformation. A stranger becomes a centre of gravity. Told in spare, luminous fragments, this is a story about how love reshapes the way we see the world.

Here, the man is the muse. And the gaze is entirely, unmistakably, female.

 

Vasia Tzanakari (born 1980, in Serres) studied English language and literature at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and translation at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has written two novels, two collections of short stories, a book for children and has participated in collective works. She was nominated for the Diavázo magazine’s New Writer Award for her first book, Eleven Little Murders: Stories Inspired by Nick Cave Songs (2008). In 2021 Tzanakaris’ book, Adelfiko, was shortlisted for the anagnostis Novel Prize, the Athens Prize for Literature of the Greek Journal  (de)kata and the Klepsydra magazine’s Prize. She has translated works by Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Nick Cave, Ian Rankin, etc.

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