(Athens, 1968) works in different genres of literature (prose, essay, chronicle), literary theory and photography. He has published 19 books. He has been awarded the Athens Academy Prize (2008), the international Balkanika Prize (2015) and the French Prix Ravachol (2013) and Prix Laure Bataillon (2014). In 2015, the French Republic awarded him the title of Chevalier of Letters and Arts. Writer of the City of Zurich (2020), member of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP) and Iowa Fellow of the International Writers Program IWP (2007). He founded and directed the international literary festival DaseinFest in Athens (2006–2011). He served as Assistant Artistic Director at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus in the years 2019–2020. He has lectured and participated in dozens of festivals in Europe and the USA and has edited collective publications and publishing series in Greece and abroad His photographic work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and France. He is the co-founder and director of the KAIROS POLITISMOU [https://www.kairosculture.org/] art foundation.

Reading Greece: Christos Chryssopoulos, Writer at Home, Photographer at Large