G We don’t know how, and under which circumstances they left from that place, whether they in fact abandoned the city and during which time frame. Whether they set out in stages, or all at once, if they moved somewhere else and to which place exactly, and if something happened to make them emigrate […]
Dimitris Lyacos
DIMITRIS LYACOS Dimitris’s Poena Damni trilogy is one of the best-selling and most highly regarded works of contemporary European poetry in translation. Developed as a work in progress over the course of three decades the trilogy was published in its final form in English in 2018, when Lyacos was also mentioned for a Nobel Prize in Literature. Poena Damni has been translated in 20 languages and has given rise to sister projects across various artistic media. Renowned for combining, in a genre-defying form, themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology, Poena Damni reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon. New editions are forthcoming in Brazil (Relicario) and Turkey (CAN) in 2023.
