Public Book Awards 2017: Two Ikaros books among the best of the year!

On the evening of Tuesday 23 May at the Pallas Theatre in central Athens, one of the most important events in the world of books took place: the presentation of the 2017 Public Book Awards!For the fourth consecutive year, readers expressed their preferences and selected their favourite books with more than 140,000 votes. Ikaros had the pleasure of receiving two awards:In the Contemporary Greek Poetry category, Kiki Dimoula’s latest poetry collection, ‘Anotelia’, was awarded.We would like to thank Kiki Dimoula very much for her excellent collaboration, her writings, her words, and her trust over all these years.  Katerina Karidi receives the award presented to Kiki Dimoula from Eleftheria Arvanitaki.In the Greek Novel category, the award went to Eftychia Giannaki’s book *In the Back Seat*. The book marked the launch of crime fiction at Ikaros, and we thank her warmly for her trust. Her second book, featuring Inspector Haris Kokkinos, *Alcyon Days*, is already at the printers and will be released in the coming days. Eftychia Giannaki receiving her award for Best Greek Novel. We would also like to extend our warmest thanks to all the readers who singled out these two books and honoured us with their votes. The evening was hosted by Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, and Mariza Rizou provided musical accompaniment with wonderful retro tunes. A total of 160 publishing houses took part in the competitive section of the awards, 1,300 authors and 2,200 titles, of which a total of 13 books were awarded. We look forward to seeing you again next year!