The Streets Sculptor (novella, Odos Panos, 2002 – shortlisted for the Greek National Book Award–category:short fiction).Le livre des vices (Le serpent à plumes, 2001), Il libro dei vizi (Edizioni Est/Ouest, 2002) The Book of Vice (short stories, Exandas, 1999) transl.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.
In November 2014, he married his partner in the state of New York. 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.Īuguste Corteau is an activist against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and has even received verbal attacks on his positions. His latest novel, The Book of Katherine, chronicled his mother's lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder. In 2014, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. In 2004 Corteau won the Greek National Book Award for Children's Literature and the IBBY Prize for Best Children's Novel. 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. Medicine, Aristotle University of ThessalonikiĪuguste Corteau (Greek: Αύγουστος Κορτώ) is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos (Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος).Ĭorteau was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979.
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