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Auguste Corteau
Auguste Corteau () 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.
In 2004 Corteau won the Greek National
Award in Poetry, named a finalist for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award, Housatonic Book Award, Helen Smith Memorial Prize for Best Book of Poetry, and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Published books.
- "Sixteen" by Auguste Corteau (2019)
- "Wattle & daub" by Brian Coughlan (2018)
- "Silk Road" by Daneen Wardrop (2018)
- "Romer" by Robert Eastwood (2018)