Auguste Corteau

Auguste Corteau

Auguste Corteau (Greek: Αύγουστος Κορτώ) is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos (Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος). He was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979.

Career

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.[1]

In 2004 Corteau won the Greek National Book Award for Children’s Literature and the IBBY Prize for Best Children’s Novel.[1]

His latest novel, The Book of Katherine, chronicled his mother's lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder. It was adapted for stage by George Nanouris in 2014, starring Lena Papaligoura in the leading role and musician Lolek in the musical background of the performance.

LGBT activist

Auguste Corteau is activist against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and has received and verbal attacks on its positions.[2] In November 2014, he married his partner in the state of New York.[3][4] In January 2016, he signed with his partner a Cohabitation Pact, being the first same-sex couple after the law was passed in the Hellenic Parliament.[5]

List of works

Fiction

Children's literature

Translations

References

External links

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