10-12 OCTOBER 2025
Οι ερχόμενοι [I erxomeni]
12:15
Presentation
With Kyriakos Margaritis and Roxani Nikolaou
SUMMARY
Coming from a place known and a place unknown, from the womb of the earth and from the highest firmament, she sets her gaze on the rock that becomes gravel in the palm of her hand. Ancestors stand by her, relatives of the whole earth, parents emerging from the future, time the departing and time the coming. The flowers are stubborn and death no longer has power.
Roxani Nikolaou has long shaped a personal universe of writing, in which she nurtures and cultivates the living memory, the truth of a pure face, the clarity of a keen gaze. This time, poetry meets prose in 45 tableaux vivants, which constitute dark fairy tales about the primeval past, elegies of modern day life, but also oracles and apotropaic spells about the end of man and things, about the end of our world.
BRIEF CV
Kyriakos Margaritis was born in Cyprus in 1982. In 1996, he published the tabloid novel Giorkis the Karpasite in a local newspaper, which was published in book form in 1998. In 2014, he wrote the novel Kronaka (Ikaros 2017), which concludes his first writing period. Since then, he has been writing a multi-volume work with the general title Nea Kronaka, which consists of eleven trilogies. The first of these contains the novels Ennea, Samson and Simvan 74, published by Ikaros Publications. At the same time, he is developing a series of narrative essays, published by Armos Publications, most recently Ano Buthos (2023), on the work of director Philippos Koutsaftis.