{"id":19718,"date":"2026-03-19T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/?post_type=books_from_greece&#038;p=19718"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:30:44","slug":"i-am-writing-from-the-belly-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"books_from_greece","link":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/books_from_greece\/i-am-writing-from-the-belly-of-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Writing from the Belly of the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"303\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u03bc\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03c2-\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u03bc\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03c2-\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2.png 303w, https:\/\/elivip.gr\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u03bc\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03c2-\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/elivip.gr\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u03bc\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03c2-\u03b5\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2-250x301.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Minos Efstathiadis<\/strong> (1967-) studied Law in Athens and Hannover. He gave up being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing novels. His play <em>The Meal<\/em> received the prize for Original Playwright and was shortlisted for the Eurodram international contest in Germany. His novel<em> The second part of the night <\/em>(2014) has been published in German. His novel <em>The Diver <\/em>(2018) was shortlisted for the Athens Prize for Literature and has been published in French together with <em>Kvadi<\/em> (2020) and <em>Chaos plans <\/em>(2022)<em>.<\/em> In 2019 he participated in the book<em> Fragments: Nouvelles et r\u00e9cits de Gr\u00e8ce<\/em> published by Buchet Chastel. After its translation into French <em>The Diver<\/em> figured in the nominations for the prize Violeta Negra-Occitanie and the European Book prize (Prix du livre europ\u00e9en). He lives next to the sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minos Efstathiadis (1967-) studied Law in Athens and Hannover. He gave up being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing novels. His play The Meal received the prize for Original Playwright and was shortlisted for the Eurodram international contest in Germany. His novel The second part of the night (2014) has been published in German. His novel The Diver (2018) was shortlisted for the Athens Prize for Literature and has been published in French together with Kvadi (2020) and Chaos plans (2022). In 2019 he participated in the book Fragments: Nouvelles et r\u00e9cits de Gr\u00e8ce published by Buchet Chastel. After&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19707,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"magazine-language":[],"class_list":["post-19718","books_from_greece","type-books_from_greece","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_from_greece\/19718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_from_greece"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books_from_greece"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_from_greece\/19718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19719,"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_from_greece\/19718\/revisions\/19719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"magazine-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elivip.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-language?post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}