Ikaros Books at the 2018 Public Book Awards.

The Public Book Awards welcome readers for the fifth year running! The first phase of voting has already begun and will conclude on 20 April.Last year, Kiki Dimoula won the Award for Best Poetry Collection (Anoteleia), and Eftychia Giannaki the Award for Best Greek Novel (Sto pisw katisima).This year’s event marks a landmark year for Greece, given Athens’ designation as UNESCO World Book Capital for 2018.Readers are invited to highlight the books that stood out from the 2017 literary output, choosing from eleven different award categories.In addition to these, there will also be three special awards, in which readers do not participate by voting (Best Illustration in a Children’s Book Award, Publishing Imprint Award, and Public Bookshops Award).Books published by Ikaros are nominated in five different award categories. View our nominations (by category) along with the links for each one and vote for your favourite books: Greek novel:Eftychia Giannaki – Halcyon Days: http://bit.ly/AkyonidesMeres18Ισμήνη Kapantaï – Townhouse in Halandri: http://bit.ly/AstikiOikiaStoChalandri18Κυριάκος Margaritis – Kronaka: http://bit.ly/Kronaka18Δημήτρης Nollas – The Garden in Flames: http://bit.ly/OKiposStisFloges18 Translated novel: Vicente Alfonso – The Remains of Saint Lawrence (translation: Maria Palaiologou): http://bit.ly/TaLeipsanaTouAgiouLaurentiou18Jean Echenoz – Special Envoy (translation: Achilleas Kyriakidis): http://bit.ly/EidikiApestalmeni18Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere (translation: Maria Angelidou): http://bit.ly/PotekaiPouthena18Hannah Kent – The Good People (translation: Maria Angelidou): http://bit.ly/OiKaloi18George Saunders – Oblivion and Lincoln (translation: Giorgos-Ikaros Babasakis): http://bit.ly/LithiKaiLinkoln18Enrique Vila-Matas – In Kassel There Is No Logic (translation: Nanna Papanikolaou): http://bit.ly/StoKaselDenYparxeiLogiki18Alejandro Zambra – The Private Life of Trees (translation: Achilleas Kyriakidis): http://bit.ly/IdiotikiZoiTonDentron18  Greek non-fiction: Athanasios Alexandridis – Childhood Loves: http://bit.ly/PaidikoiErotes18Χρήστος Giannaras – Fall-Crisis-Hell: http://bit.ly/PtosiKrisiKolasi18Απόστολος Doxiadis – Saying and Saying Again: http://bit.ly/LegontasKaiKsanalegontas18Αλέξανδρος Kostopoulos – Bridges of Cooperation – The Marshall Plan and Greece: http://bit.ly/GefiresSinergasias18Τάκης Pappas – On a tightrope: http://bit.ly/SeTentomenoSkoini18Έφη Sapouna-Sakellaraki – When time spoke: http://bit.ly/OtanMiliseOChronos18  Contemporary Greek Poetry: Yannis Antiochos – Dissolution: http://bit.ly/Dialisis18Γιάννης Metaxas – But afterwards, afterwards...: http://bit.ly/MetaOmosMeta18Κυριάκος Charalambidis – Of the Sun and the Moon: http://bit.ly/IliouKaiSelinisAlos18Γιώργος K. Psaltis – You: http://bit.ly/Esena18  Greek Children’s Literature: Alexia Vernikou – All the Way to the Sky and Back (illustrations: Sofia Touliatou): http://bit.ly/MexriTonOuranoKaiPiso18Ιουλίτα Iliopoulou – But when will this Wizard arrive? (illustrations: Yannis Kottis – music: Giorgos Kouroupos): http://bit.ly/MaPoteThaFthaseiAytosOMagos18Μιχάλης Moulakis – A yellow leaf (illustrations: Filippos Fotiadis): http://bit.ly/EnaKitrinoFyllo18Θοδωρής Papaioannou – Silouani (illustrations: Daniela Stamatia): http://bit.ly/Silouani18Άλκηστη Halikia – Silan’s Box (illustrations: Daniela Stamatia): http://bit.ly/ToKoutiTouSilan18