LETTER FROM DUBLIN – NOVEL – BEST NEW AUTHOR PRIZE 1997

THE 1997 MARIA RALLI PRIZE FOR THE BEST FIRST-PUBLISHED AUTHOR - VICKY THEODOROPOULOU - LETTER FROM DUBLIN - HESTIA PUBLISHERS

To date, the MARIA RALLI AWARD FOR THE BEST FIRST-PUBLISHED AUTHOR has been awarded to: Alexandros Issaris, Stratis Paschalis, Maria Grammatikou, Panagiotis Kousathanas, Takis Tzamalikos, Giannis Spandonis, and in 1996 jointly to Lena Divani and Marko Kaleodis.

EXTRACT FROM THE COMMITTEE’S REPORT ON THE AWARDING OF THE MARIA RALLI PRIZE FOR THE BEST FIRST PUBLISHED AUTHOR, 1997.

“…the committee…was impressed by the novel’s literary virtues, its refreshingly fast-paced and inspired style, its knowledgeable use of language and the way this chimed with the book’s subject-matter, the skill with which the lives of a group of young people were woven into a fiction, and the personal, inspired, impressionistic descriptions of the celebrated cities of Europe. The Committee was therefore of the opinion that this book, more than any other work by a first-published author in 1997, constitutes a firm guarantee of its creator’s continued development”.