Nikos Chryssos was born in 1972 in Athens. His has written the novels The Secret of the Last Page (Kastaniotis Publishers, 2009) and New Day (Kastaniotis Publishers, 2018). In 2014 he edited the annotated re-release of Lefteris Alexiou’s Unforgettable Times and the collective volume Book Stories, and in 2019 he edited, together with Ioanna Spiliopoulou, the collective volume Nikos Kazantzakis and Politics – all three books were published by Kastaniotis Publishers. His short stories have been included in collective volumes. Since September 2018 he has been the second vice-president of the Greek Section of the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (ISFNK).

EUPL 2019 European Prize for Literature 2019

Winner of Klepsydra Magazine Prize, 2019

National Special Prize for Fostering Dialogue in Sensitive Social Matters, 2019

Reading Greece: Nikos Chryssos on the Physical and Meta-Physical Effect of Narration